ALBONICO v. MADERA IRR. DIST.

Docket No. Sac. 6460.

53 Cal.2d 735 (1960)

350 P.2d 95

3 Cal. Rptr. 343

PHILLIP ALBONICO et al., Respondents, v. MADERA IRRIGATION DISTRICT et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

February 29, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

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,* Edmund G. Brown and Stanley Mosk, Attorneys General, B. Abbott Goldberg, Assistant Attorney General, Adolphus Moskovitz, Deputy Attorney General, and McCormick, Moock & McCormick as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellants.

Green, Green, Plumley & Kuney, Denslow B. Green, Kenneth A. Kuney, Sherwood Green, Green, Green & Bartow, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Herman Phleger, Alvin J. Rockwell and John M. Naff, Jr., for Respondents.

Harry W. Horton, Reginald L. Knox, Jr., Horton & Knox, W.R. Bailey, Frank E. Jenney, Ronald B. Harris, P.J. Minasian and Martin McDonough as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.


PETERS, J.

This case involves the same basic issue as to the validity of the contract between the Madera Irrigation District and the United States as was involved in the Madera case this day decided (ante, p. 692 [3 Cal.Rptr. 317, 350 P.2d 69]). As far as that issue is concerned, the law stated in that case, and in the two companion cases, is controlling. On the authority and for the...

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