Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Gravel Mining .
The case of Woodruff Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company was a lawsuit brought to California courts in 1882 where a group of local farmers sued North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company over damages caused to farmland in the Central Valley. The farmers who brought the suit claimed that the company''s hydraulic mining operations (which were used to mine gold following in the years ...