Burrows v. Burrows

Gibson, C.

The parties to this suit are the owners of and cultivate separate farms in Monterey County, lying upon and embracing a natural stream known as Muddy Creek and flowing into Clear Creek, which has its source easterly of their farms, and when running flows in a westerly direction, first through the land of respondent Olds, next through that of respondent Burrows, and then through the land of appellant. During the winter and spring of each year, and in times of great freshets, it flows in a large stream down to and across the lands of appellant, but in the summer and during dry seasons…