Riverside Land & Irrigation Co. v. Jansen

Citations

• 66 Cal. 300
• 5 P. 486
• 1885 Cal. LEXIS 417

Syllabus

<p>Quieting Title—Easement—Ditch over Another’s Land—Evidence.—In an action to quiet title, where the only interest claimed hy the defendants in their answer is an easement to use a ditch for conveying water across the plaintiff’s land to their own land, for the purpose of irrigation and domestic use, the plaintiff may show that the defendants were conveying in the ditch more water than was necessary for such purpose, and the exclusion of evidence showing the amount of water required for irrigation on the defendants’ land, and the carrying capacity of such ditch, is error.</p>