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Show DISPUTE IS SETTLED BY SUPREME COURT WASHINGTON. April 'J7. California irrigation ir-rigation companies are entitled to charge rates on a valuation of properly Including an Item for tho "value of the water rights." according to a decision today of the supreme court in the case of the San Joaciuln and King's River Canal & Irrigation Irriga-tion company This decision ends a long conflict between be-tween the state courts, which held that companies were entitled to have this item Included in Ihc valuation of tliolr property prop-erty for ratc-malclng purposes, and Iho federal court of l.h state, which held from time to time that the constitution of California, "appropriates" these water rights to tho public use |