Orange County Water District v. City of Riverside

THE COURT.

This is a petition by the defendant cities for a writ of supersedeas to stay the enforcement of a judgment, relating to water rights, pending the appeal from that judgment.

Each petitioner owns water and water rights in the watershed of the Santa Ana River and for many years has diverted and/or extracted water from said watershed for use in connection with its production and distribution of water for public, municipal, domestic and other beneficial purposes. The plaintiff is a water district located within the county of Orange, its main function being the spreading of water on its…