Goodall
Goodall v. Superior Court
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Shaw, J.
A writ of review was issued herein upon a petition wherein this court is asked to annul an order dismissing a proceeding instituted in the trial court to have one Mrs. Lora J. Moore adjudged guilty of contempt for the disobedience of a judgment enjoining her from doing the acts of which petitioner complains.
The proceeding was instituted by the filing of an affidavit setting forth the fact that in the year 1908, in a certain action wherein petitioner was plaintiff and certain persons were defendants, a judgment was rendered in favor of petitioner and against the defendants perpetually enjoining them and their assigns, as the owners of a certain tract of land, from obstructing the natural flow of water in its usual course through a certain creek that extended across said tract of land which adjoined a parcel of land owned by plaintiff; that subsequent to the date of said judgment Mrs. Moore, by mesne conveyances, obtained title to said tract of land and at all times since her acquisition thereof has been in possession of the same; that some time subsequent to June, 1913, Mrs. Moore, as owner of said tract of land through which the waters of said creek flowed, erected and caused to…