Fallbrook Public Utility Dist. v. United States District Court, Southern District California, Southern Division

Petitioner, Fallbrook Public Utility- District, is seeking a writ of mandate against the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, Southern Division, and the Honorable Leon R. Yank-wich, as Judge of said United States District Court, commanding them to refrain and desist from taking any further steps or proceedings to try the case or issues against the petitioner and commanding the respondents to make and enter an order vacating and setting aside the order dated September 29, 1952, for the transfer of said action, as to petitioner, from the Southern Division of the Southern District of California to the Central Division thereof.

The litigation involved is ah action by the United States, as a riparian owner, to quiet title to water rights along the Santa Margarita River and its tributaries. The purpose of the suit is to insure a water supply for the Camp Pendleton Marine Base. Over a thousand claimants to water from this river were named as defendants, but the United States moved for and was granted separate trials against petitioner and the Santa Margarita Mutual Water Company. Later, the State of California was permitted to intervene.

The action was…