Opinion
Docket No. L.A. 19186.
June 3, 1949.
APPEAL from orders of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County fixing and allocating expenses of reference of case to a referee. Frank C. Collier, Judge. Affirmed.
Goodspeed, McGuire, Harris Pfaff, Paul Vallee, Richard C. Goodspeed and J. Donald McGuire for Appellant.
A.E. Chandler, Special Counsel, Harold P. Huls, H. Burton Noble, City Attorneys (Pasadena), C.C. Carlton, Spencer Burroughs, Henry Holsinger, James C. Bone, T. Guy Cornyn, City Attorneys (Arcadia), Gerald E. Kerrin, Robert E. Moore, Jr., Hahn Hahn, Edwin F. Hahn, Potter Potter, Bernard Potter, Sr., Merriam, Rinehart Merriam, Ralph T. Merriam, Laurence B. Martin, Frederick G. Stoehr, Emmett A. Tompkins, City Attorney (Alhambra), Kenneth K. Wright, Special Counsel, Paul F. Garber, City Attorney (Monrovia) Walter F. Dunn, Thomas Reynolds, City Attorneys (Sierra Madre), Anderson Anderson, Trent G. Anderson, John C. Packard, Bacigalupi, Elkus Salinger, Claude Rosenberg, Derthick, Cusack Ganahl, W.J. Cusack, Wilton W. Webster, Dunn Sturgeon, Walter F. Dunn, Chandler Wright, Howard Wright, Bailie, Turner Lake, Norman A. Bailie, Cruickshank, Brooke Dunlap, Boyle Holmes, John W. Holmes, Frank P. Doherty, Gibson, Dunn Crutcher, Ira C. Powers, Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel (Los Angeles), and S.V.O. Prichard, Assistant County Counsel, for Respondents.
Martin J. Weil, Wm. J. De Martini, J.A. McNair, J. Arthur Tucker, W.F. Kiessig, Harrison Guio, L.A. Gibbons, Jerry H. Powell, Douglas C. Gregg, Lawler, Felix Hall and Pillsbury, Madison Sutro as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.
MEMORANDUM CASE
THE COURT.
The Division of Water Resources of the Department of Public Works was appointed as referee in an action to determine ground water rights, and defendant California-Michigan Land Water Company has appealed from two orders which fixed and allocated the expenses of the reference among the parties to the action. No objection is raised as to the method or amounts of the allocation, but it is contended that the reference procedure was improper and invalid for a number of reasons. The same contentions were made in the companion case of City of Pasadena v. City of Alhambra, ante, page 908 [ 207 P.2d 17], and were determined adversely to appellant.
The orders appealed from are affirmed.
Appellant's petition for a rehearing was denied June 27, 1949. Carter, J., and Schauer, J., voted for a rehearing.