Strong v. Baldwin

Action to determine the right to an easement for a ditch upon the lands of the defendants.

The plaintiffs allege in their complaint that they are severally the owners of certain tracts of land within the Rancho Paso de Bartolo Viejo, sometimes called the Ranehito, on which trees and crops, for which irrigation is necessary, are growing, and that there is a certain ditch known as the Rincon Ditch, connecting with the San Gabriel River at a point on the Rancho La Puente near its southwesterly boundary, and extending for the distance of about a mile through said rancho to and upon their said…