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1) The document describes a lawsuit brought by 244 landowners against the City of Los Angeles regarding water rights to the Los Angeles River. 2) The landowners owned ranches granted by Spain and Mexico that were later patented by the US, and argued they had rights to waters on their land. 3) The City claimed paramount rights to the river and its waters based on Spanish and Mexican land grants to the Pueblo of Los Angeles that it asserted it succeeded to. 4) The landowners sought to remove the cloud o

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