Rindge v. Crags Land Co.

Plaintiffs brought this action to secure equitable relief of several kinds, all designed to protect rights asserted to be held by them to the use of waters flowing in Malibu Creek, in the county of Los Angeles. Defendant Crags Land Company owns land immediately above and adjoining that of plaintiffs. At a point on the former’s land Triunfo and Las Yirgines Creeks converge to form Malibu Creek, which latter flows thence and through the lands of plaintiffs to the Pacific Ocean. It was asserted that the defendants had, by the erection of a dam on Triunfo Creek, interfered with the natural flow…