City of Pasadena v. City of Alhambra

This is a petition of the California-Michigan Land and Water Company, a corporation, for a writ of supersedeas to stay the enforcement of a judgment relating to water rights.

In September, 1937, the city of Pasadena filed an action against twenty-seven defendants, including petitioner, for a declaration of rights of the parties to underground water in a certain area, referred to as the Raymond Basin Area; to quiet title to such water rights; and for injunctive relief to protect those rights.

The cause came on for trial in Hay, 1944, and all of the parties to the action except petitioner…