Rutherford v. Oroville-Wyandotte Irrigation District

Petitioner instituted this mandamus proceeding on behalf of himself and others to compel respondent district to issue to petitioner a receipt in full for water delivered to his lands upon the payment theretofore of $6 per acre-foot. The controversy between respondent and the group represented by petitioner is of long standing. Various phases of this controversy have been before this court on four different occasions in recent years. (Henderson v. Oroville-Wyandotte Irr. Dist., 207 Cal. 215 [277 Pac. 487]; Dankert v. Oroville-Wyandotte Irr. Dist., 211 Cal. 87 [293 Pac. 785]; Henderson v.…