American Co. v. Bradford

By the Court, Currey, J.

The plaintiff, composing a joint stock company, under the name and style of the “American Company,” brought its action in June, 1863, against the defendants, alleging in its complaint that for more than ten years then last past it had been the owner and in possession of a certain ditch called the “ Deadwood Ditch,” leading and extending and conducting the waters from Deadwood Creek, in Sierra County, to Craig’s Flat 'and Morristown, in the same county, for mining purposes. The plaintiff alleged that by means of the ditch and a dam at the head of it across the creek, it…