Turlock Irrigation District v. Sierra & San Francisco Power Co.

This action was prosecuted in the superior court of Tuolumne County to condemn the rights of the Sierra and San Francisco Power Company in and to a certain water system, known as and called the La Grange ditch, and also whatever rights or interests the other defendants might have in and to said property. The complaint sets forth that the plaintiffs are irrigation districts organized for public purposes, are building and propose to build a certain dam across the bed of the Tuolumne River, known as the Don Pedro dam, for the purpose of storing water for the uses and purposes of the plaintiff districts. The ditch belonging to the Sierra and San Francisco Power Company is described, its location designated, and then the complaint sets forth the fact that in the building of the proposed dam several hundred feet of the La Grange ditch will be flooded.' It also appears that the intake of the La Grange ditch is at a point called Indian Bar, some distance above the Don Pedro dam. It is further alleged in the complaint that the plaintiffs will, by means of the construction of ports in and tunnels or conduits leading from said dam, supply to the water company all the water to which it is…