v0079-845
No. 419.
IN THE
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
FOR THE
rSIINTIi GIRCUIT
San Diego Flume Company,
a corporation,
Appellant,
vs.
- Souther et al.,
Appellees.
FILED
NOV 6 -1899
SIPPLEMENTAL BRIEF OF WILLIAIV1 J. HLNSAKER,
AS AMICUS CURLE.
" Now I challenge counsel to point to any law pre-
scribing the right of a corporation to sell a water right
as the water right is sold in this case, for a gross sum,
or to sell a water right at all. Not only does the Con-
stitution by its very terms place the ownership and right
to the use of the water in the public and deprive the
corporation or any corporation of any proprietary interest
in the corpus of the water itself, but following OUt the
provisions of the Constitution, the Legislature of this
State has expressly provided how the compensation of
water companies shall be fixed for the supplying of the
water, and that they shall charge no more than the rate
fixed as provided by the statute."
Argument of Hon. John D. Works in Meyer v. City
of San Diego, (L. A. No. 373), p. 88.
Filed November , i8gg.
Clerk.
FISK & HORNBECK. PRINTERS, 218 N. MAIN ST., L. A.
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