Five Corners Family Farmers, et al. v. State, 268 P.3d 892 (Wash. Sup. Ct. 2011)

(1945 state law providing for exemptions from permit requirement for certain types of withdrawals of groundwater applies to withdrawals for stock-watering purposes and does not limit such withdrawals to any particular quantity; withdrawals at issue involved between 450,000 and 600,000 gallons per day for 30,000-head cattle feedlot; at time of enactment in 1945 legislature could have reasonably believed that stock-watering was of significant importance and impact of such watering slight; dissent opined that legislature never intended that statute would allow such large withdrawals with no examination of whether existing rights impaired or public welfare harmed).