Case ID: cal_156/html/0031-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "ANGELLOTTI, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[L. A. No. 2312.
    In Bank.
    July 2, 1909.]
    JAMES McNAIR, Appellant, v. IMPERIAL WATER COMPANY NO. 1, Respondent.
    Mandamus—Mutual Water Company-—-Enforcement by Stockholder op Bight to Use Water.—Miller v. Imperial Water Company No. 8, ante, p. 27, approved, and on the authority thereof the judgment of the superior court denying an application for a writ of mandate is reversed.
    
      APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Imperial County. Franklin J. Cole, Judge.
    The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
    Conkling & Brown, for Appellant.
    Eshleman & Swing, Stephens & Stephens, F. C. Farr, and John M. Eshleman, for Respondent.
   ANGELLOTTI, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Imperial County, denying an application for a writ of mandate. The judgment was entered after an order sustaining a general demurrer to the petition and the refusal of plaintiff to amend.

The facts alleged in the petition show, in effect, the same grounds for relief, and in substantially the same form, as those considered in an opinion this day filed by this court in a proceeding entitled Miller v. Imperial Water Company No. 8, ante, p. 27 [103 Pac. 227].

For the reasons therein stated, we are of the opinion that the demurrer to the petition in this case was improperly sustained by the trial court.

The judgment of the superior court is reversed and the cause remanded, with directions to the lower court to overrule the demurrer of defendant, with leave to answer if it be so advised.

Sloss, J., Shaw, J., Lorigan, J., Melvin, J., and Henshaw,. J., concurred.