Turner v. East Side Canal & Irrigation Co.

The plaintiffs appeal from the part of the judgment declaring that the defendant “is entitled to divert” from the San Joaquin River, at a point above plaintiff’s land, two hundred and eighty-one cubic feet of water per second, “for sale, rental and distribution, for the irrigation of land and for the watering of stock and domestic uses thereon,” and quieting the title of the defendant to said water “against plaintiffs as the owners of the riparian lands above described.”

The plaintiffs each own a large body of land on and near the San Joaquin River. Other large bodies of land belonging,…