Fernandez
Hercules Water Co. v. Fernandez
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Chipman, J.
Eminent domain. The complaint alleges corporate organization of plaintiff under the laws of this state, for the purposes, among others, of acquiring water rights, “on one or more rivers, creeks or streams within the state of California; of acquiring, purchasing, erecting, constructing, holding,' owning, improving and leasing dams, reser voirs, tanks, canals, flumes, aqueducts, ditches, pipe-lines and other water-ways or conduits and securing and impounding springs, streams and all other water-ways; of buying, selling, owning, or otherwise dealing in, water for domestic, irrigation, manufacturing and all other purposes; of furnishing, supplying and selling the same to any county, city and county, city, town, and the inhabitants thereof; of acquiring, constructing and maintaining reservoirs, tanks, canals, pipelines”; avers the ownership of water rights in the waters of Pinole creek, Contra Costa county, “being the right to divert and use the waters of said creek and to store the same for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants of the town of Pinole and of the town of Hercules and of other places in the said County of Contra Costa, with water for domestic and other necessary and…