CITY OF BARSTOW et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents,
v.
MOJAVE WATER AGENCY et al.; Defendants, Cross-Complainants and Respondents;
Jess Ranch Water Company, Cross-Defendant and Appellant.
MOJAVE WATER AGENCY et al., Cross-Complainants and Respondents,
v.
Manuel CARDOZO et al., Cross-Defendants and Appellants.
Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Two.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 1, 1998.
Review Granted August 26, 1998.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Covington & Crowe, LLP, Robert E. Dougherty and Eric S. Vail, Ontario, for Cross-defendants and Appellants Manuel Cardozo et al.
Gutierrez & Preciado, Calvin House and Clifton A. Baker, Pasadena, for Cross-defendant and Appellant Jess Ranch Water Company.
McCormick, Kidman & Behrens, LLP, Arthur G. Kidman, David D. Boyer and Bradley D. Pierce, Costa Mesa, for Plaintiffs and Respondents City of Barstow and Southern California Water Company.
Brunick, Alvarez & Battersby, William J. Brunick, San Bernadino, and Jeffery L. Caufield, San Diego, for Defendants, Cross-complainants and Respondents Mojave Water Agency et al.
Markman, Arczynski, Hanson, Curley & Slough, James Markman, Brea, and Boyd Hill for City of Hesperia and Hesperia Water Company.
Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott, Frederic A. Fudacz and John Ossiff, Los Angeles, for Apple Valley Ranchos Water Company.
Monteleone & McCrory and Thomas P. McGuire, Los Angeles, for Victor Valley Water District.
Best, Best & Krieger, Eric Garner and Arthur L. Littleworth, Riverside, for Rancho Las Flores Limited Partnership.
Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, Roderick E. Walston, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Charles W. Getz, IV, Assistant Attorney General, and Marilyn H. Levin, Deputy Attorney General, for California Department of Fish and Game.
Law Offices of Therese Exline Parker for Alfredo Arguelles, Richard F. Barak, Charles Bell, Lillian Borgogno, John Thomas Carter, Marshal Chuang, George Ronald Dahlquist, Alan DeJong, Frank T. Duran, Trinidad L. Gaeta, Wayne D. Gesiriech, S. Harold Gold, Ciril Gomez Living Trust, Daniel C. Gray, Karen Gray, Nick Grill, Merlin Gulbranson Excavating, Scott S. Hert, Melvin Hill, John Hosking, Jean Hosking, Larry Johnson, Joon Ho Kim, H. Leslie Levine, J. Peter Lounsbury, Ken Luth, The 160 Newberry Ranch Limited Partnership, Meadowbrook Dairy, Newberry Ranch, George Parker, Ruth Parker, Trinidad Perez, Daniel Pettigrew, Howard Pettigrew, John J. Pettis, Joan C. Randolph, Bill Resseque, Charles Short, Robert A. Smith, Wayne A. Soppeland, Stanley Stewart, Patricia Stewart, Edward W. Stringer, Thomas Taylor, Carole Taylor, Dale Thomas, Ronald Thomas, James A. Thompson, Cornelius Van Diest, Van Leuwen Family Trust, Albert H. Vogler, Ykema Trust, Ykema Harmsen Dairy, Keith Young and Margie Young.
Alan K. Marks, County Counsel, L. Thomas Krahelski and Paul M. St. John, Deputy County Counsel, for Baldy Mesa Water District, Juniper Riviera County Water District, San Bernardino County Barstow-Daggett Airport, San Bernardino County Service Area 29, San Bernardino County Service Area 42, San Bernardino County Service Area 64, San Bernardino County Service Area 70C, San Bernardino County Service Area 70G, San Bernardino County Service Area 70J and San Bernardino County Service Area 70L.
Redwine and Sherrill and Steven B. Abbott, Riverside, for Lake Arrowhead Community Services District, Kemper Campbell Ranch and Southdown, Inc.
Gresham, Savage, Nolan & Tilden, LLP and Michael Duane Davis, San Bernardino, for Hesperia Golf & Country Club, Mitsubishi Cement Corporation, Rheox, Inc. and Silver Lakes Association, and Specialty Minerals, Inc.
Southern California Edison Company, Nino J. Mascolo and Douglas P. Ditonto, Rosemead, for Southern California Edison Company.
Nancy N. McDonough and David J. Guy, Sacramento, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of California Farm Bureau Federation.
Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Two.
OPINION
HOLLENHORST, Associate Justice.
This case holds that the trial court erred in adjudicating water priorities in an overdrafted basin on the basis of an alleged physical solution based on the doctrine of equitable apportionment without due regard for the riparian and overlying water rights of farmers in the basin. We therefore reverse the judgment as to the farmers, and affirm the judgment as to other parties who stipulated to it.
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