Court Opinion

ID: 9652631
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 17:29:06.501049+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:53.143145
License: Public Domain

MATHEWS, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
This appeal is from part of a decree — the part which was in favor of appellees and against appellant. That part of the decree was based on a finding that appellees and their predecessors in interest made an appropriation of the waters of Nugget Creek prior to the year 1917. The finding was based on nothing at all. Appellees did not allege, prove or attempt to prove that they or their predecessors in interest ever made an appropriation of the waters of Nugget Creek or any part thereof. So much of the decree as is here appealed from should be reversed.