85 P.2d 601
No. 6007.Supreme Court of Utah.
Decided December 20, 1938.
1. JUDGMENT. Where re-examination of findings made by lower court showed that they were not fixed and definite with respect to priorities of water rights, it could not be contended that lower court made an ambiguous judgment conform to a definite fact finding in pursuance of principle that when a judgment is capable of one or more interpretations resort to findings may be had to give it definiteness. 2. APPEAL AND ERROR. The Supreme Court in making an order directing amendments and modifications ordered by trial court to be stricken and original judgment re-established as the judgment of the court did not mean to determine the meaning of the judgment or imply what that original judgment held, if anything, with respect to priorities of water rights between the parties, and if there was any ambiguity in the judgment, proper proceedings to determine its construction and to interpret it could he had.
On petition for rehearing.
Petition denied.
For former opinion, see 96 Utah 106, 83 P.2d 737.
B.C. Call, of Brigham, for plaintiffs.
George D. Preston, of Logan, for defendants.
PER CURIAM.
On petition for rehearing point is made that what the lower court really did was to make an ambiguous judgment conform to a definite finding of fact and that this was in pursuance of a principle that when a judgment is capable of one 1 or more interpretations resort to the findings may be had to give it definiteness. A re-examination of the findings made by the lower court shows that they are not fixed and definite as to priorities; hence, the contention of petitioners must fail.
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In making the order directing the amendments and modifications ordered by the trial court to be stricken and the original judgment re-established as the judgment of the court, we did not by that order, or by anything in the 2 opinion, mean to determine the meaning of the judgment or imply what that original judgment held, if anything, as to priorities between the parties. If there is any ambiguity in the judgment, proper proceedings to determine its construction and to interpret it may be had. The petition for rehearing is denied.