Stone v. Cordua Irrigation District

The plaintiff owns the southwest quarter of section 29, township 16 north, range 4 east, in Tuba County, the land being outside the boundary lines of the defendant district. The defendant is an irrigation district organized under the California Irrigation District Act. (Stats. 1897, p. 254, and amendments thereto.) Within the district, in section 19 and the sections northerly thereof, rice is raised on seven hundred acres of land for the irrigation of which water is furnished by defendant. The Southern Pacific Railroad runs in a northeasterly direction and touches the southeast corner of section 19. The natural drainage of the seven hundred acres of rice land and certain other lands in the district -is in a southwesterly direction through a slough which is west of the railroad. Nigger Jack slough runs in a southwesterly direction in a course nearly parallel with and approximately a quarter of a mile east of the railroad. It enters plaintiff’s land near the middle of the north boundary thereof and a short distance southwesterly from the point of entrance it divides into two branches, the east branch crossing plaintiff’s south boundary and the west branch running westerly to a point…