Williams v. Rankin

This case involves the riparian rights of all landowners on Walker Basin Creek, located in the Tehachapi Mountain area, some 30 miles southeast of Bakersfield. The creek has its source, at least as a flowing surface stream with easily decipherable bed and banks, some 500 yards northeasterly of the point where it leaves Walker Basin. Walker Basin was formed by the upthrust along Breckinridge Fault, which is on the westerly side of the basin. The basin itself contains alluvium, consisting of gravel, sands, and clays, which are surrounded by granitic-textured and metamorphic rocks of the…