Tattersfield v. Putnam

This is an appeal from a judgment of the superior court, rendered in a proceeding brought under the provisions of the State Water Code, to determine the relative rights of various claimants to the waters of Pantano Creek. The facts, as they appear from the findings of the trial court and as they may reasonably be inferred from the evidence so far as the latter establishes facts necessary to sustain the judgment, and which were not specifically found by the trial court, may be stated as follows:

In the year 1891, C. O. Crane and J. J. Fraker had either acquired or initiated the right to acquire…