Alta Land & Water Co. v. Hancock
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of San Bernardino County. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtFox, J.
This is an action to quiet title to the claim of plaintiff, a corporation, to the right to use seven eighths of the waters of East Twin Creek in San Bernardino County. Judgment went for the defendants, from which plaintiff appeals, the case coming up on the judgment roll.
Plaintiff claims by prescription in favor of its grantors, and under grant of such alleged prescriptive right *223to itself. Defendants are riparian proprietors on both sides of the stream, below the point where plaintiff claims the right of diversion. It was alleged and shown that in April, 1875, the defendant Hancock, who was…
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