Richey v. East Redlands Water Co.

SMITH, C.—

Appeal from a judgment for the defendants and from an order denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial. The plaintiffs are stockholders of the defendant corporation, which was organized in the year 1886 for the purpose of supplying lands of its stockholders with water. The other defendants are three of the directors and the zanjeros of the company. The lands in question are subdivisions of a tract of land near Redlands, in the county of San Bernardino, known as the “Chicago Colony Tract,” which, it should be understood, lies on a slope looking to the north—the highest point…