California Court of Appeal

Judgment entered on retrial declaring a forfeiture of certain previously appropriated waters of the Kern River is affirmed with modifications where, although the trial court erred in finding that the forfeiture created unappropriated water subject to appropriation through the SWRCB process, and the initial determination whether the forfeiture creates an allocable excess is reserved in the first instance to SWRCB, however, the trial court was correct that the forfeited rights are not awarded to plaintiff.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/05/2007
• Published 02/05/2007

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Young Wooldridge,Ernest A. Conant, Scott K. Kuney, Steven M. Torigiani, Bakersfield;  Best Best & Krieger, Arthur L. Littleworth, Gregory K. Wilkinson and Jill N. Willis, Riverside, for Plaintiff, Cross-complainant, Cross-defendant and Appellant., McMurtrey, Hartsock & Worth, Gene R. McMurtrey, Bakersfield, Daniel N. Raytis, James A. Worth, Bakersfield;  Smiland Khachigian Chester, William M. Smiland and Theodore A. Chester, Los Angeles, for Defendant, Cross-complainant, Cross-defendant and Appellant., Virginia A. Gennaro, City Attorney;  Duane Morris, Colin L. Pearce, San Francisco, and Matthew K. Kliszewski for Cross-complaint, Cross-defendant and Respondent.