Murphy Slough Assn. v. Avila

Opinion

FRANSON, J. *

Appellant appeals from a judgment after trial by court entered January 6, 1974, in. favor of respondents on appellant’s action to enjoin respondents from using any waters of the Kings River in the Murphy Slough channel. By stipulation the issues of the action were bifurcated and only the first issue was tried below and is the subject of this appeal: Whether a conveyance by a deed in 1908 to Laguna Reclamation District by respondents’ predecessors in title of a certain strip of land severed riparian water rights from respondents’ remaining lands lying south of the strip…