Live Oak Water Users' Ass'n v. Railroad Commission

This court had occasion once before to outline the facts of the instant case, and for the purposes of the present consideration it adopts its former statement of facts with some modifications.

By this proceeding petitioners seek to have reviewed and annulled a certain order and decision of the Railroad Commission, given and made on April 26, 1922, with relation to the water rates of the Sutter-Butte Canal Company, in so far as the said order and decision of the Commission affects and undertakes to regulate certain water rates payable by petitioners as customers of the Canal Company in alleged violation of law. The individual petitioners herein, and also those persons who constitute the membership of the several associations who are named as petitioners herein and for whom merely an oral appearance was entered and who introduced no evidence before the Commission with the exception of two, are land owners in the region supplied with water for irrigation purposes by the Canal Company, and as such land owners are either directly, or through their predecessors in interest, the holders of contracts with such Canal Company or its predecessors, for the furnishing of water upon their…