Kell v. Jansen

Plaintiffs were the .owners of certain land in Shasta County across which a natural stream known as the east fork of Clear Creek ran in a southwesterly direction to its confluence with Clear Creek which ran along the west side of the property. The only access to the house occupied by the Kells upon the premises was by a road leading from a county road and crossing the east fork over a bridge which Mr. Kell had constructed. Plaintiffs also owned a water right appurtenant to their property, and water for the irrigation of some fifteen or twenty acres of their land was diverted from the said…