Piper v. Hawley

RICHARDS, J., pro tem.

This is an appeal from an order directing the issuance of a temporary mandatory injunction requiring the removal of a certain earth embankment and temporary sack levee from what is known as Knights Landing Ridge, in the county of Yolo. The facts out of which the controversy between the parties hereto arose are substantially as follows: The Sacramento River flows through the Sacramento Valley in a general northerly to southerly direction. During its course therein and from a point near its entry into the valley to its mouth it passes between banks raised above the level…