Goodell v. Verdugo Ca&209on Water Co.

CHIPMAN, C.

The prayer of the complaint is for an injunction to restrain defendant from changing the distribution of plaintiff’s proportion of water to which he is alleged to be entitled as a stockholder of defendant. It is averred in the complaint that the purpose of defendant in changing the distribution of plaintiff’s share of said water from the hours and in the manner in which he has been receiving it was to coerce the abandonment of a certain contract entered into between the company and plaintiff and one Byram, looking to the development of more water on defendant’s land. Defendant…