Butte Cty. Water Users' Ass'n v. R.R. Comm'n
California Supreme Court
PROCEEDING in Certiorari to annul an order of the Railroad Commission directing the apportionment of water. Order affirmed. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtOlney, J.
This is an application by an association of those consumers of the Sutter Butte Canal Company, who were consumers prior to 1920, to annul an order of the Railroad Commission that, beginning with the year 1920, that company serve with water some fourteen thousand four hundred acres of land not theretofore served by it. The company was organized as, and has always been, a public utility company supplying water for irrigation, and its articles of incorporation empower it to sell and distribute water in the counties of Butte and Sutter. It takes its water from the Feather River near Oroville, in…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Leavitt v. Lassen Irrigation Co.California Supreme Court · 1909
- Blakely v. Fort Lyon Canal Co.Supreme Court of Colorado · 1903
- First Trust & Savings Bank v. Bitter Root Valley Irr. Co.District Court, D. Montana · 1918
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- Sutter Butte Canal Co. v. Railroad Comm'n of Cal.Supreme Court of the United States · 1929
- State v. Laramie Rivers Co.Wyoming Supreme Court · 1943
- McCullagh v. Railroad CommissionCalifornia Supreme Court · 1922
- King v. Railroad CommissionCalifornia Supreme Court · 1923
- Brooks v. Oakdale Irrigation DistrictCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1928
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