Charnock v. Higuerra
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County and from an order denying a new trial. Lucien Shaw, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court
1Opinion of the CourtVan Fleet, J.
This is an action brought by several riparian proprietors against certain persons above them on the stream, to restrain them from diverting any of the waters of the stream.
*475The complaint alleges that the plaintiffs are riparian proprietors, and as such entitled to all the waters of the stream; that the defendants are not entitled to use any of the water for any purpose; and that they, by means of certain machinery, artificially and wrongfully raise and divert from the stream a large amount of the waters thereof, for the purpose of irrigating certain lands not of right irrigable from the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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