Seneca Consol. Gold Mines Co. v. Great Western Power Co.

PRESTON, J.—

This appeal involves a conflict of claims to the right of use of the waters of the North Fork of the Feather River at certain points thereon in Plumas County. The record is large and the briefs of counsel are numerous and voluminous, but we intend to confine this discussion within comparatively narrow limits.

Plaintiff, a corporation, the owner of certain lode mining claims, on the ninth day of August, 1924, sued defendant public utility corporation to enjoin it from diverting the natural and normal flow of the waters of said stream above •plaintiff’s lands. The complaint is in two…