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WRIGHT v. GOLETA WATER DIST.

Docket No. B001908.

174 Cal.App.3d 74 (1985)

219 Cal. Rptr. 740

MARTHA H. WRIGHT et al., Plaintiffs, Cross-defendants and Appellants, v. GOLETA WATER DISTRICT, Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant; COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA et al., Cross-defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Six.

November 7, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Hatch & Parent, Stanley C. Hatch, Stanley M. Roden, Thomas D. Wise and Scott S. Slater for Plaintiffs, Cross-defendants and Appellants.

Robert E. Goodwin for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant.

Kenneth L. Nelson, County Counsel, Enrique R. Sanchez, Deputy County Counsel, Steven A. Amerikaner, City Attorney, Leslie E. Lobaugh, Woodrow D. Smith, Griffith & Thornburgh and L. Donald Boden for Cross-defendants and Appellants.

OPINION

STONE, P.J.

Here, we are asked to decide whether a trial court, in a judicial determination of a ground water dispute among private parties and public entities, may define or otherwise limit future ground water rights of an overlying owner who has not yet exercised those rights. We hold that it may not and reverse the judgment.

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