Ukhtomski v. Tioga Mutual Water Co.

SCOVEL, J., pro tem.

In 1929 and 1930 plaintiffs acquired under contract of sale approximately three acres of land in San Bernardino County, being part of a larger tract containing some six hundred acres known as the College Heights Tract. Plaintiffs’ land is covered with sage brush and rock and the value thereof was testified to by one J. B. Baile, Federal Land Bank appraiser of San Bernardino County, as being one hundred and fifty dollars per acre.

In 1932 defendant, Tioga Mutual Water Company, erected, at a cost of some seven thousand dollars, a concrete reservoir with the necessary outlets,…