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loginA 1937 court case (an appeal hearing) involving Corona Foothill Lemon Company over some water rights.:
https://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/corona-foothill-lemon-co-v-lillibridge-24891The appellants, it is charged in the complaint, about the month of July, 1930, began pumping water in large quantities from wells situated on their lands also in the basin, which water they transported through an open ditch into the Santa Ana River and finally to points outside of the basin; that during the summer and fall of 1930 appellants so exported from the basin more than 500 miner's inches of water per day (the term "miner's inch" being used to specify 1/50th of a cubic foot of water per second), and sold such water for use on lands in Orange County, more than ten miles from the basin; that between October, 1930, and March 1931, appellants bored additional wells and enlarged their pumping plants and facilities for the purpose of increasing [8 Cal.2d 524] their exportation of water; and that about April 1, 1931, they resumed their exportation activities and transported from the basin large quantities of water, allegedly in excess of 800 miner's inches, continuous flow.
(Another long sentence.)
