Last Chance Water Ditch Co. v. Emigrant Ditch Co.

Appeal from an order denying a motion to change the place of trial. Plaintiff is the proprietor of a water ditch, situate partly in Fresno county and partly in Kings county, through and by means of which it takes and supplies to its stockholders water which it has appropriated from Kings river for the irrigation of their lands situated along the line of the ditch. In 1894 the defendant constructed a canal known as the Fowler Switch canal, about thirty-two miles above the head of the plaintiffs ditch, through which it diverted a certain quantity of water from Kings river, and afterward…