Yolo Water & Power Co. v. Hudson

Appellant is a corporation engaged in selling water for purposes of irrigation. It obtains the water which it sells from Clear Lake, in Lake County. Appellant proposed to increase its supply of water by raising the surface of the lake by means of a dam to a height of ten feet above the mean low-water mark. In accomplishing this purpose the various tracts of land adjoining the lake would be flooded to the ten-foot level. This action was accordingly brought for the purpose of condemning and taking in fpe the lands below the proposed ten-foot level, these lands being portions of larger tracts…