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 canon 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…
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