Santa Paula Water Works v. Peralta

Britt, C.

In this action the court below adjudged that the plaintiffs, as tenants in common, have the right to divert and use the water of the Santa Paula creek, in Ventura county, to the extent of six hundred inches, measured under a four-inch pressure, subject, however, to the superior right of defendant to divert and use fifty inches of the water, measured, as aforesaid, during “one day of twenty-four hours in each week, from Saturday afternoon to Sunday afternoon,” and subject to the further right of defendant to take one-half an inch of water in constant flow, to be used only within a…