Corona Foothill Lemon Co. v. Lillibridge

The controversy presented by this case concerns the right to underground waters.

The respondents are owners of lands overlying what they claim to be the Corona basin. The appellants, it is charged in the complaint, about the month of July, 1930, began pumping water in large quantities from wells situated on their lands also in the basin, which water they transported through an open ditch into the Santa Ana River and finally to points outside of the basin; that during the summer and fall of 1930 appellants so exported from the basin more than 500 miner’s inches of water per day (the term…