Coast Counties Real Estate & Investment Co. v. Monterey County Water Works

PARKER, J., pro tem.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of plaintiff and against defendant and comes to this court upon a bill of exceptions.

The facts of the case follow. In the year 1907 plaintiff, referred to hereinafter as the Realty Company, had bought a tract of land in Monterey County. The purpose of the Realty Company was to subdivide the land and offer it for sale to the public. The area embraced somé 1600 lots. As a necessity, water was required and there was none available to the tract. A corporation, predecessor of defendant, was then operating in Monterey County and engaged…