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Pyramid Land & Stock Co. v. Scott

Good Law
1921 Cal. App. LEXIS 710·51 Cal. App. 634·197 P. 398
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaMarch 3, 1921Civ. No. 2260.California4,967 words

Opinion

lead Opinion

Hart, J.

This action was brought by plaintiffs to quiet their title as against defendants to the water of Long Valley Creek, a creek flowing northerly through the lands of all of the plaintiffs and defendants and thence into Honey Lake, in Lassen County, California.

Plaintiffs in their complaint claim as appropriators and as riparian proprietors. Defendants claim as appropriators and as riparian proprietors and by amendment to their answer claim prescriptive rights.

The court found that defendant Scott had an adverse right to 90 inches- of the waters of the creek and defend ants Galeppi liad an adverse right to 310 inches of the waters of the creek. The court failed to find that the plaintiffs were appropriates, but did find that both the plaintiffs and defendants were riparian owners, and as to this the court found that plaintiff Pyramid Land and Stock Company has 1,200 acres of land riparian to said Long Valley Creek; that plaintiff P. M. Rowland has 400 acres of land riparian thereto; that plaintiff A. J. Hill has 560 acres of land riparian to said creek; that defendant C. A. Scott has 1,120 acres, and defendants Galeppi have 400 acres of land riparian thereto.

It was further found…

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