UNITED STATES v. CENTRAL STOCKHOLDERS' CORPORATION

Nos. C-86-J, C-87-J.

43 F.2d 977 (1930)

UNITED STATES v. CENTRAL STOCKHOLDERS' CORPORATION OF VALLEJO et al. SAME v. CHARLES S. HOWARD CO. et al.

District Court, S. D. California, N. D.

October 6, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. F. Lawson and E. E. Danly, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and Samuel W. McNabb, U. S. Atty., and I. F. Parker, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Los Angeles, Cal.

Athearn, Chandler & Farmer and Frank R. Devlin, all of San Francisco, Cal., for defendants Central Stockholders' Corporation and Charles S. Howard Co.

Roy V. Reppy and George E. Trowbridge, both of Los Angeles, Cal., and Edward F. Treadwell, of San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Southern California Edison Co.

J. E. Woolley, of San Francisco, Cal., amicus curiæ, for Miller & Lux, Inc., and San Joaquin & Kings River Canal & Irrigation Co.


JAMES, District Judge.

Two suits, as above entitled, are brought on behalf of the United States to secure an adjudication of its claimed right, acting through licenses granted under the Federal Water Power Act (16 USCA §§ 791-823), to impound, upon land included within forest reserves in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California, water for the purpose of operating plants to produce electricity for power and lighting.

Plaintiff seeks first an injunction...

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