STATE v. RANK

No. 15840.

293 F.2d 340 (1961)

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, United States of America, et al., Appellants, v. Everett G. RANK et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

As Corrected August 14, 1961.

On Petition for Rehearing August 14, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Lee Rankin, Sol. Gen., William H. Veeder, Washington, D. C., Irl Davis Brett, Los Angeles, Cal., and J. O. Reavis, Delano, Cal., Stanley Mosk, Atty. Gen., of California, and B. Abbott Goldberg, Asst. Atty. Gen., of California, Denver C. Peckinpah, Fresno, Cal., Adolph Moskovitz, Sacramento, Cal., Maddox & Abercrombie, Visalia, Cal., for appellant.

John H. Lauten, Claude L. Rowe, Fresno, Cal., for appellee.

Before HAMLIN and MERRILL, Circuit Judges, and POWELL, District Judge.


MERRILL, Circuit Judge.

This case involves the Central Valley project, an important undertaking of the Bureau of Reclamation in California's Central Valley.

Suit was brought by these appellees in 1947 to enjoin Bureau officials from the impounding of water at Friant Dam on the San Joaquin River in contravention of the rights of appellees to the beneficial use of the waters of the San Joaquin below Friant. Since commencement...

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