Lakeside Ditch Co. v. Crane

This is an action between rival appropriates to determine who has the superior right to divert water from Cross Creek, a natural watercourse, flowing through Tulare County. Plaintiff claims that the defendants have no right to any water until its ditch has been first supplied to its full capacity, and the court so decided.

*183The findings of the court are in several respects quite uncertain. It is found that on the first day of May, 1874, plaintiff took out and diverted through its ditch, under a claim of right, openly and adversely to the whole world, water “sufficient to fill its ditch, which…