Barrios v. Pleasant Valley & Lake Canal Co.

These parties occupy the same relative position as in the trial court and we hereinafter designate them as plaintiff and defendant respectively.

Plaintiff, claiming ownership by purchase of certain irrigation water “appropriated through and decreed to defendant’s ditch,” and asserting possession and use thereof by him “for more than twenty years prior to the year 1928 openly, notoriously, continuously and adversely,” alleged that such use had been interfered with by defendant in 1928, and entirely prohibited in 1929, and demanded injunctive relief. Defendant denied the material allegations of…