Bledsoe

—This action was brought by plaintiffs for the purpose of having it adjudged that they are the owners of the right to take and divert, at the point described in the complaint, the waters of the Mojave River to the extent of six hundred inches, measured under a four-inch pressure, and that defendants have no right, title, or interest to said six hundred inches.

The defendants, by their different answers, claimed by prior appropriation certain portions of the waters of said river. The court filed findings of fact, upon which judgment was entered for plaintiffs for the amount of water claimed, with certain exceptions and reservations. It was found that defendants Julius E. Meyer, Jr., Henry Meyer, Charles Meyer, and Julius Meyer, Sen., are the owners, as against the plaintiffs, of the right to 175 inches of the waters of said river, to be taken at the point designated in their answer. This finding is not attacked, and there is no appeal by plaintiffs as to said defendants Meyer, and no appeal by them.

The court found that defendants Davidson, Bemis, and Lane have a prior and superior right to divert, at the intake of their ditch where it is now situated, 230 inches, measured under…