Watterson v. Hillside Water Co.

This action was by the superior court ordered to be dismissed. The judgment of dismissal was entered upon motions made respectively and separately by defendant Hillside Water Company and The Owens River Canal Company. The ground of the motions in each case was that the plaintiff had failed to prosecute his action with reasonable diligence. In the case of the Owens River Canal Company the motion was made before summons had been served, while in the case of the Hillside Water Company the motion was made approximately one month after the service of summons and after demurrer had been filed by…