McKinley Bros. v. McCauley

Appeal by defendant James B. McCauley from a judgment in an action which is essentially one to quiet plaintiff’s title to the beneficial use of the waters of Putah Creek in Lake County. The judgment decreed that the plaintiff, McKinley Brothers, a corporation owning and operating a flourmill and electric power plant near the town of Middletown, is the owner of and entitled to the possession for beneficial uses of all of the flow in the natural channel of said creek up to 500 miner’s inches measured under a four-inch pressure at its diversion points on Anderson and English Creeks, which creeks…