Tulare Irrigation District v. Lindsay - Strathmore Irrigation District

In the Superior Court of the State of California

In and for the County of Tulare.

Tulare Irrigation District, et al. vs. Lindsay-Strathmore Irrigation District.

Kaweah River watershed is a broad section of the western slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, consisting of about 600 square miles. The river by that name becomes a considerable stream at a small, low elevation mountain settlement, called Three Rivers, about 35 miles easterly of Visalia in Tulare County, and runs about 10 miles westerly through a wide, rocky canyon and a short distance beyond the foothills to McKay Point, where it divides over a cement weir. It is a typical California torrential stream, running low in late summer and winter, and high with great fluctuation with snow-melting weather in the spring months. The Kaweah (by that name) continues in a southwesterly direction and at about 4 or 5 miles east of Visalia assumes the name of Mill Creek.

The St. Johns, the other branch, was cut off the main river about the year 1862, by an accidental obstruction. It flows a little north of westerly and hugs closely the red tight soils that extend westerly *3 from the foothills by the Kaweah River. The St. Johns…