State Ex Rel. Malone v. District Court of Sixth Judicial District

OPINION

By the Court,

Coleman, J.:

This is an original proceeding in mandamus to compel the respondent to assume jurisdiction in a contempt proceeding in which he had refused to proceed on the ground that he had no jurisdiction.

We do not deem it necessary to state the allegations of the petition in detail, as the only question involved is the interpretation of one section of our water law.

The state engineer, pursuant to proceedings theretofore had, filed with the clerk of the Sixth judicial district court in and for Humboldt County his order of determination of the relative rights of the water…