City of Santa Ana v. Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Co.

The plaintiff city, and the other plaintiffs who are abutting owners on the south side of West Washington Avenue in said city between Ross and Baker streets, a distance of some five blocks, and on East Seventeenth Street, between Bush and French Streets, a distance of two blocks, sued to restrain the defendant from maintaining an open water ditch on the south side of said avenue and street between said side streets; to have the' same declared a public nuisance and to require defendant to construct instead of said open water ditch some suitable, reasonable, and proper conduit placed…