Chowchilla Farms Inc. v. Martin

Plaintiff is the owner of land riparian to the San Joaquin Biver in Madera and Merced Counties. These lands lie some fifteen to twenty miles below the junction of said river and Fresno Slough. San Joaquin Biver rises in the high Sierra Nevada Mountains and flows in a generally westerly direction into the valley of the same name. When it reaches the floor of the valley, at or near where it is joined by Fresno Slough, it makes an abrupt turn to the north and flows in a generally northerly direction until it unites with the Sacramento Biver, and from said point the combined waters of the two…