Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Rollins

This is an appeal from an order granting a new trial.

The action is in eminent domain to condemn a right of way for the conveyance of water. The plaintiff is engaged in the business of storing, selling, and distributing water, for power, mining, irrigating, domestic, and other purposes, and particularly for supplying counties, cities, and towns, etc., in the state of California, and the inhabitants thereof, with water for all of said purposes. To carry out these objects, it has constructed and now maintains and operates canals, reservoirs, dams, ditches, flumes, aqueducts, and all such other…