Brooks v. Oakdale Irrigation District

Plaintiffs had judgment in an action prosecuted to establish a preferential right to the use of certain waters of the Stanislaus River, from which judgment the defendants appeal.

The plaintiffs are the owners of certain tracts of land located within the vicinity of Knights Perry, in the county of Stanislaus, which lands have been irrigated for over fifty years from waters taken from the Stanislaus river and conveyed to said lands by means of a certain dam and ditch diverting the waters of said Stanislaus River thereto. None of the lands belonging to the plaintiffs lie within the exterior…