City of Vallejo v. Burrill

The plaintiff and appellant is a municipal corporation owning and operating its own water system. A portion of the water system is a pipe-line running from the city of Vallejo to Green Valley, a distance of about sixteen miles. The original pipe-line was laid in 1893 and runs through the lands belonging to the defendant, but at that time owned by his father, Thomas Burrill. The defendant succeeded to his father’s interest in the land referred to about the year 1900. In 1905 or 1906 a new line was constructed between Vallejo and Green Valley. This line was laid in two sections, the first…