Mojave River Irrigation District v. Superior Court of San Bernardino County

This is an application for a writ of prohibition directed to the respondents herein, the Superior Court of San Bernardino County and the judges thereof, preventing further action in a proceeding instituted in said court under the provisions of section lb of the Water Commission Act (Stats. 1923, p. 162) for the purpose of a review of a certain order of the division of water rights, provided for in said act, granting to the Mojave Biver Irrigation District a permit to appropriate water from the Mojave Biver. The title of said proceeding was “Van Dyke et als., plaintiffs, vs. Department of Public Works etc. et als., defendants.” The so-called plaintiffs in said proceeding consisted of a large number of persons and corporations or associations claiming prior rights as riparian owners, or appropriators or adverse claimants to the recipient of said permit, and who were seeking, by said proceeding, to have said court review and reverse or modify the order of said division of water rights granting such permit. The defendants, so called, in such proceeding were the department of public works, the director of public works, the chief of division of water rights, operative institutions or…