Auchmoody

From the year 1908, and at all times thereafter to and including the time of the transactions covered by this action, the plaintiff was the owner of a tract of land, containing about twelve acres, within the city of Manhattan Beach, a municipal corporation of the sixth class. During more than four years immediately preceding July, 1914, the Hermosa Beach Water Company, a public utility corporation, was engaged in furnishing water through a distributing system established by it, supplying practically all of the consumers of water within the corporate limits of defendant city, together with consumers situated outside of said city. During all of that time, and until the first day of July, 1914, the plaintiff received from the water company an adequate supply of water for domestic, agricultural, and horticultural needs upon said property. Plaintiff had improved her lands by setting out thereon eight acres of various kinds of orchard trees, as well as annual crops of agricultural and garden products. On the first day of July, 1914, these trees were in normal growing condition.

Prior to the first day of July, 1914, the defendant was authorized to and did construct and install a…