City of Lodi v. East Bay Municipal Utility District

This action was brought by the City of Lodi against the East Bay Municipal Utility District and the Pacific Gas and Electric Company to establish: (1) the plaintiff’s right as against the defendants to appropriate, for municipal purposes, a specified quantity of water by means of wells penetrating the underground water strata, alleged to be supplied by percolation from the • Mokelumne River; (2) to establish that the plaintiff’s right so to appropriate the specified quantity of water is prior in time and superior to any right of either defendant to appropriate water from the Mokelumne River;…