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PEOPLE v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES

Docket No. L.A. 19404.

34 Cal.2d 695 (1950)

214 P.2d 1

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

February 7, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ray L. Chesebro, City Attorney Gilmore Tillman, Chief Assistant City Attorney, C.T. Waldo, Assistant City Attorney, Cecil A. Borden, Deputy City Attorney, and A.E. Chandler for Appellants.

Fred N. Howser, Attorney General, Walter L. Bowers, Assistant Attorney General, and Burdette J. Daniels, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.

TRAYNOR, J.

In 1913, defendant city of Los Angeles completed its aqueduct to the Owens River, which previously emptied into Owens Lake, a salt-water lake without outlet. The city completed in 1939 an extension of its aqueduct system into the Mono Basin watershed and in 1941 its Long Valley Dam at the upper end of Owens Valley. From 1919 to 1937 it diverted virtually all the flow of the Owens River into its aqueduct above Owens Lake. By 1921 the lake was dry and remained...

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