Natural Soda Products Co. v. City of Los Angeles

This ease revolves around a flooding of Owens Lake during the period December, 1937, to April, 1939. A previous action was brought by plaintiff as a result of a similar flooding in early 1937, in which case the Supreme Court considered the relationship of defendants’ Owens Valley aqueduct system and Owens Lake. (Natural Soda Prod. Co. v. City of Los Angeles, 23 Cal.2d 193 [143 P.2d 12].) The physical situation in this case is the same as there presented.

In 1913 the defendants completed their aqueduct to Owens Valley and, from 1919 to 1937, diverted into it virtually all the flow of the Owens…