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MADERA IRR. DIST. v. ALL PERSONS

Docket No. Sac. 6489.

47 Cal.2d 681 (1957)

306 P.2d 886

MADERA IRRIGATION DISTRICT, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. ALL PERSONS, etc., Defendants; JOHN HUMPHREYS et al., Respondents; THE PEOPLE et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

January 24, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David E. Peckinpah, Denver C. Peckinpah, Harold M. Child and L.N. Barber for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, B. Abbott Goldberg and Adolphus Moscovitz, Deputy Attorneys General, Henry Holsinger, Principal Attorney, Division of Water Resources, and Gavin M. Craig, Senior Attorney, for Defendants and Appellants.

Roy A. Gustafson, District Attorney (Ventura), James E. Dixon, Deputy District Attorney, J. Lee Rankin, Solicitor General of the United States, Perry W. Morton, Assistant Attorney General, David R. Warner and Roger P. Marquis, Attorneys, Department of Justice,† as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellants.

Harry W. Horton, Horton & Knox, Denslow Green, Green, Green & Plumley, Chester R. Andrews, Mason A. Bailey, Coffee & Wolfe, Dowell & Thompson, Sherwood Green and Green, Green & Bartow for Respondents.

Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Herman Phleger, Alvin J. Rockwell and John M. Naff, Jr., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.

SHENK, J.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff Madera Irrigation District and certain of the defendants from a judgment refusing to confirm a proposed contract between the United States, acting by and through the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the Interior, and the plaintiff district. The contract is substantially the same as that considered in the companion case of Ivanhoe Irr. Dist. v. All Parties, ante, p. 597 [306 P.2d 824...

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