Cairns v. Haddock

The action was to restrain defendant from obstructing a ditch which was being used by plaintiff in conducting water across defendant’s land from a natural watercourse known as Elk Bayou to a certain tract of land owned by plaintiff. In the complaint it was alleged, “That said plaintiff is now, and for more than six years last past has been, the owner and in the actual possession of that certain water ditch heading in and leading out of a certain natural water course situate in the County of Tulare, State of California, known as the Bayou, and the weirs and gates in and across said Bayou at…