Legal Opinion
Provident Land Corp. v. Zumwalt
California Supreme Court
Decided November 28, 1938No. Sac. 5133PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THE COURT.
This is an action by a bondholder to set aside purchases by an irrigation district of its own bonds from other bondholders.
Provident Irrigation District was organized in April, 1918, under the provisions of the California Irrigation District Act (Deering’s Gen. Laws, Act 3854, p. 1948), with an area of some 22,805 acres. Two bond issues were sold, one in 1918 and the second in 1921, in the total aggregate sum of $1,190,-000. In common with most of the other irrigation districts, it suffered considerable delinquencies in its assessments in recent years, and much of the land was taken…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Mulcahy v. BaldwinCalifornia Supreme Court · 1932
- Kerr Glass Manufacturing Corp. v. City of San BuenaventuraCalifornia Supreme Court · 1936
- Provident Land Corp. v. BenoitCalifornia Supreme Court · 1938
- Provident Land Corp. v. Provident Irrigation DistrictCalifornia Supreme Court · 1938
3Cited by34 opinions
- West Coast Life Ins. Co. v. Merced Irr. Dist.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1940
- May v. Board of DirectorsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1949
- Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District v. KlukkertCalifornia Supreme Court · 1939
- City of Long Beach v. MorseCalifornia Supreme Court · 1947
- El Camino Irrigation District v. El Camino Land Corp.California Supreme Court · 1938
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