Wenzel & Henoch Const. Co. v. Metropolitan Water Dist.

YANKWICH, District Judge.

On March 17, 1933, at Los Angeles, Cal., the plaintiff, Wenzel & Henoch Construction Company, a Wisconsin corporation, qualified to do business in California, to be referred to as “the contractor,” entered into a contract in writing with the defendant, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, a California municipal corporation, to be referred to as “the district,” to do certain work described as the construction of the district’s San Jacinto tunnel in Riverside County, Cal. This diversity of citizenship gives us jurisdiction.

In the performance of the…