Island Reclamation District No. 776 v. Floribel Alfalfa Syndicate

Defendants have appealed from an order of the superior court of Kings County granting a preliminary injunction whereby they are restrained from constructing a dam across a branch of Kings River.

The plaintiff is a reclamation district organized under the laws of this state and all of the lands embraced within said district are within Kings County and are protected from inundation by a levee. It is alleged in the verified complaint that the easterly boundary of the district begins at a point “near the section line between sections ten.and eleven in township eighteen south, range twenty east, M. D. B. & M., where what is generally known and called the South Fork of Kings River crosses said section line between said sections ten and eleven, and that said levee runs thence on the north side of said South Fork of said Kings River in a westerly and southwesterly direction across said section ten, the northwest córner of section fifteen, across sections sixteen and seventeen in said township and range and follows the meander line of said south fork of said Kings River at a distance of about from thirty to one hundred feet from said river”; that Kings River carries annually large…