Krieger v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

Opinion

CARR, J.

Appellant Krieger appeals from a judgment entered on his complaint denying him damages and a permanent injunction to prevent respondent Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PGandE) from lining a section of its Upper Utica “Canal” with a concrete-like substance known as “gunite.” PGandE also cross-complained for damages and injunctive relief to prevent Krieger from appropriating water from the ditch in question for his own use. Krieger likewise appeals from the judgment on the cross-complaint assessing $100 compensatory and $100 punitive damages for water wrongfully appropriated by…