East Side Canal & Irrigation Co. v. United States

In our opinion filed on April 5, 1948 [111 C. Cls. 124], we held that plaintiffs were entitled to hold in reserve the waters of the San J oaquin River in times of spring floods in order to take care of a possible deficiency in the supply of water furnished plaintiffs by the Merced Irrigation District, and we held that the defendant had deprived them of this right by the erection of the Friant Dam. However, we held that there was no proof in the record from which we could determine the value of this water right and we remanded the case to a Commissioner to take proof on this question.

At the…