Pacific Live Stock Co. v. Ellison Ranching Co.

OPINION

Ry the Court,

Sanders, J.:

These appeals concern adjudications of conflicting rights of the parties to the use of the waters of Quinn River and its tributaries in Humboldt County, which were made many years ago by Hon. E. J. L. Taber, judge of the Fourth judicial district, acting as judge pro tern, of the Sixth judicial district. The adjudications were made at the suit of the Pacific Live Stock Company, a lower proprietor, against upper proprietors of land irrigated from said river and the tributaries thereof. The decree adjudicates as many as sixty appropriative rights for irrigation,…