Court Opinion

ID: 9852804
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 05:37:14.103268+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:34.934656
License: Public Domain

THE COURT.
Respondents’ petition for a rehearing is denied. Appellant’s petition for correction and modification of the opinion is likewise denied. While it is true, as urged by appellant, that there is no specific paragraph of the judgment of the trial court directly referring to the matters affirmed by paragraph 6 of the order of this court, it is also true that many portions of the judgment are necessarily based thereon. Several paragraphs of the judgment of the trial court provide that the rights of the respondents must be satisfied before the appellant is entitled to pump any water for nonriparian uses from the waters underlying the Rancho de Kaweah. Those portions of the judgment can only be understood by reference to the findings wherein the physical characteristics of the basin, the effect of appellant’s pumping on the surface flow of the two rivers, and the extent of the cone of depression are set forth in detail. As set forth in the opinion heretofore filed in this ease, the evidence. produced by respondents overwhelmingly supports the findings as to the effect of any pumping on the Rancho de Kaweah on the surface flow of the two rivers, and on the designated diversion ditches, upon which the portions of the judgment above referred to are based. Under the circumstances it would be an unjustified burden to require respondents, on the new trial, to reestablish the matters referred to.  Appellant concedes that an appellate court may, in ordering a new trial, limit such new trial to particular issues, letting certain findings stand upon such new trial. For all practical purposes that is precisely the legal effect of paragraph 6 of the order of this court. It was intended by that paragraph to exclude from considera*584tion on the new trial all issue's mentioned in paragraph 6, and to let the findings in reference thereto, and the portions of the judgment supported thereby, stand on such retrial.
The other matters raised by áppellant do not require discussion.