Enos

Plaintiffs and respondents brought this action against defendants and appellants to quiet title to certain easements, for injunction, and damages arising from a change, by defendants in a certain irrigating culvert pipe and ditch, conveying waters under the highway of defendant county of Fresno and across a parcel of defendant Monroe D. Harmon and wife’s property.

Plaintiffs Ivan L. Crawford and wife own and reside on 30 acres of farm land at the northwest corner of the intersection of Mt. Whitney and Walnut avenues in Fresno County. Plaintiff Estelle M. Crawford holds a life estate in said real property. Plaintiffs Frank F. Mattos and wife own and operate a farm containing 30 acres at the southwest corner of said intersection. It adjoins a 30-acre farm owned by plaintiff Manuel Enos. The land at the southeast corner of the intersection is owned by defendant Harmon and wife. North of the Crawford property lies a canal. Previous to January, 1953, from a headgate in this canal, ran a private open irrigation ditch in a general southwesterly direction across the Crawford property, under Mt. Whitney Avenue, through a 36-inch width corrugated iron pipe. It was about 24 feet long and…