Haight v. Costanich

Plaintiff and defendant, who are the owners of adjoining tracts of land in Shasta County, seek in this action an adjudication of their respective rights in and to the waters of a creek, known as the North Fork of Richardson Creek, to which defendant’s land is riparian. In 1885, plaintiff’s predecessor in interest made entry of plaintiff’s land, which was then part of the public lands of the United States, in the United States land office, obtaining a patent in 1895. Prior to making entry of his land, the predecessor of plaintiff constructed a ditch which had at that time, and still has, a…