Fuller v. Azusa Irrigating Co.

CHIPMAN, C.

The action is to restrain defendants from interfering with a water-pipe attached by plaintiffs to the water-ditch of defendant corporation, to supply water for domestic purposes. The court gave judgment for defendants, from which and from the order denying their motion for a new trial plaintiffs appeal. The court made twenty-eight separate findings of fact, most of which are unchallenged. It appears from these findings,—1. That prior to 1885 persons known as “old users” had appropriated from the San Gabriel River, in Los Angeles County, a large quantity of water for the irrigation…