MR. JUSTICE FIELD delivered the opinion of the court.
In 1873, the plaintiff's testator constructed a ditch or canal in Placer County, California, to convey the waters of a cañon and of tributary and intermediate streams to a mining locality known as Georgia Hill, distant about seventeen miles, for mining, milling, and agricultural purposes, and for sale. The ditch was completed in December of that year, and immediately thereafter the waters of the cañon...
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