Ruddell v. Sixth Judicial District Court

OPINION

By the Court,

Coleman, J.:

This is an original application for a writ of certiorari. The petition avers that applicant is now and for more than forty years last past has been an appropriator of water from the Humboldt River and has diverted water therefrom through the Irish-American ditch for the purposes of irrigation, stock watering, and domestic use, pursuant to proof No. 0068, as appears from the State Engineer’s Order of Determination in the Matter of the Determination of the Relative Rights of Claimants and Appropriators of the Waters of the Humboldt River Stream System and its…