Davis v. Martin

The controversy in this action involves the respective rights of the parties to the use of the waters of a. stream known as Martin Creek, which» rises in the eastern. part of the lands of the defendants, Ann Martin and Brice M. Martin, known as the Martin Ranch, and flows westerly through said ranch to the Little Shasta River, having a maximum flow, during the irrigating season, of three hundred miner’s inches measured under a four-inch pressure.

The plaintiff H. L. Davis is the owner of a tract of land containing something over seven hundred acres, situated about a mile south of the Martin…