JAMES M. CARTER, District Judge.
This opinion concerns only one problem in a long and protracted water rights case, namely the effect of prior judgments in the earlier State case wherein the Rancho Santa Margarita, predecessor to the United States (hereafter the Rancho), and the Vail interests (hereafter Vail) were the principal parties.
This action was commenced January 25, 1951, by the United States of America to quiet to its rights to water from the Santa...
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