Blanchard v. Hartley

The testimony in this proceeding is unnecessarily voluminous. A great deal of testimony was directed to a notice, which was recorded by Mathias Chapman, who claimed 150 inches of water from the west fork of Williams Creek. It is contended that the notice originally read 250 inches. The only office of this notice is to give notice to the world of the claim of said Chapman. The question of a change in the number of inches is not material. The defendant Hartley made no claim to any of the water for 25 years after the notice was recorded. The successors in interest of said Chapman do not claim to…