Niemann

Plaintiff, a California corporation, alleged in its complaint that at all times mentioned therein it was, as trustee for the use and benefit of its stockholders, the owner of certain real property in- the county of Riverside, consisting of canals, pipe-lines, ditches, and conduits for the conveyance and distribution of water for irrigating and domestic pur poses to and over a body of land in the county of Riverside and comprising about four thousand five hundred acres; that this land was planted with various kinds of fruit trees and severally owned in different sized pieces and parcels by individuals, and that the land for more than ten years had been supplied with water for the purposes mentioned from the system of plaintiff. It was alleged further that a portion of the lands was included within the boundaries of the city of Corona; that the owners of the land were the owners of the water system and the water which was delivered there-through, such rights and system being appurtenant to the acreage described; that the assessor of the county of Riverside had regularly each year assessed the lands to the owners thereof who were stockholders of the plaintiff; that the lands situated…