Swift v. Goodrich

Citations

• 70 Cal. 103
• 11 P. 561
• 1886 Cal. LEXIS 734

Syllabus

<p>Riparian Proprietors—Use of Waters of Stream—Lease—Estoppel. ■ — An upper riparian proprietor who enters into an agreement, purporting to be a lease, with a lower proprietor, whereby the latter grants to him for a certain term the right to the use of the waters of the adjoining stream for domestic purposes and irrigation, is not, upon the expiration of the agreement, estopped from asserting his right as a riparian proprietor to the use of the water of the stream.</p>