Jesse and Tracy Guenther bought a residential lot in a small subdivision outside of Bozeman, Montana. Their neighbors sued them, contending they had a right to run irrigation water through a ditch across their land in spite of the subdivision approval process that had required abandonment of the irrigation ditch. Baldwin Law represented the Guenthers and obtained a ruling from the trial court that the neighbors had no such ditch rights and that the neighbors owed the Guenthers almost $150,000 in attorney fees. The neighbors appealed and the Montana Supreme Court recently affirmed the ruling in favor of Baldwin Law’s clients. Dolan v. Ceartin, 2026 MT 73, 427 Mont. 316, 586 P.3d 1208.
