Excerpt from In the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California, Second Division, Vol. 3: Spring Valley Water Company, Complainant, Vs. City and County of San Francisco, Et Al., Defendants; Oral Argument of Edward J. McCutchen, Warren Olney, Jr., And A. Crawford Greene, for Complainant, Before Honorable H. M. Wright, Standing Master in Chancer Hazen stated There are no fixed rules for estimating depreciation; different kinds of structures require different treat ments. This will be illustrated by taking up some typical kinds of property in the Spring Valley system. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.