Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Scott

The plaintiff, a public utility corporation, owns certain parcels of real property in Nevada and Placer Counties which are riparian to Bear River. For approximately ten years prior to the commencement of the action it has maintained a system of canals, power houses and regulating reservoirs through which, under its riparian and appropriative rights, waters from Bear River are diverted and used in the generation of electric energy sold by the plaintiff to the public. The waters of the river are also sold to several small communities, to the Nevada Irrigation District, and to the cities of…