Mt. Shasta Power Corp. v. McArthur

MR. JUSTICE THOMPSON (R. L.), Delivered the Opinion of the Court.

From a decree apportioning and quieting title in the respective parties to a quantity of river water for irrigation and power purposes, each party has appealed.

This action involves both prescriptive and riparian rights to the waters of Pit, Fall and Tule Bivers acquired for power purposes and for the benefit of lands adjacent to the confluence of these non-navigable streams.

The Pit River, which has its source in Goose Lake in northeastern California, flows in a southwesterly direction to its confluence with Fall River at a point…