Hunt v. Jones

This is an appeal from a judgment, and involves the validity of an order sustaining a general demurrer interposed to an amended complaint by the defendant Oroville Water Company. The complaint (it is quite lengthy, and we give such a synopsis of it as we deem pertinent on this appeal) alleged that in 1887 an association known as the Thermalito Colony Company was the owner of two or three thousand acres of land near Oroville, Butte County, and was the owner at the same time of a large supply of water; that it had surveyed said land into lots and blocks for a colony site, and had laid mains and…