Healy v. Woodruff

Citations

• 97 Cal. 464
• 32 P. 528
• 1893 Cal. LEXIS 569

Syllabus

<p>Water Eights — Appropriation — Eiparian Eights. — An appropriator of water on the public lands does not, by becoming a riparian owner, lose his right to acquire more of the water by a subsequent appropriation, or enlargement of his ditch, but he may take all the water of the stream if he is the first or prior appropriator, and there is no other riparian owner at the time of the appropriation or enlargement of the ditch, and those who subsequent!}' became riparian owners acquire no rights as against such prior appropriator.</p>