Sutro Heights Land Co. v. Merced Irrigation District

The complaint in this action asks for an injunction against the defendant prohibiting it from permitting water to flow or seep through its canals upon plaintiffs’ lands; for the abatement thereof as a nuisance, and for damages alleged to have been already sustained by reason of seepage of water upon plaintiffs’ said lands. By a separate cause of action plaintiffs also ask that defendant be compelled to install a drainage system for the purpose of relieving plaintiffs’ lands from the water which the plaintiffs allege has been caused to flow thereon through seepage from the canals of the…