Spring Valley Water Works v. San Mateo Water Works

This ease arises out of a proceeding commenced under part 3, title 7, Code of Civil Procedure, relative to the subject of eminent domain. As shaped by the pleadings, the proceeding indirectly involves a controversy between two water, corporations, each incorporated under the laws of the State, and claiming to be in charge of a public use, for which it asserts the right to appropriate private property. In the exercise of that right the plaintiff seeks, by the proceeding in hand, to comdemn twenty-eight acres of land in San Mateo County which, it alleges, form part of the cañadas, valleys, and…