· 7/28/1885

Creighton v. Kaweah Canal & Irrigation Co.

Citations

  • 67 Cal. 221
  • 7 P. 658
  • 1885 Cal. LEXIS 597

Syllabus

<p>Water—Diversion—Natural Channel.—The diversion of water from a watercourse will not bo restrained at the suit of one who owns land located on another water-course to which the former is an occasional tributary, unless such diversion diminishes the quantity of water which would otherwise have flowed into the other water-course by a natural channel, and shortens the period of the natural flow, and it will be restrained only as to such quantity and period.</p>

Judges: Myrick

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