Bottoms

Action to recover the sum óf $176,000 alleged to he due the plaintiffs from the defendant for services rendered by the plaintiff for the uses and purposes of the defendant. The defendant had judgment and the plaintiffs appeal.

The record shows the existence of the Madera Irrigation District organized and existing under and by virtue of the act commonly referred to as the Wright-Bridgford Act (Stats. 1897, p. 254), and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto,' that prior to the tenth day of July, 1922, the qualified voters of the Madera Irrigation District had voted bonds in the sum of $28,000,000 for the purpose of effectuating and carrying out the plans of said Irrigation District to appropriate, impound, store, and distribute the waters of the San Joaquin Elver upon the lands situate within the boundaries of said District for the purpose of irrigation. It also appears from the record that during all of the times mentioned in this proceeding, the intervener, Miller & Lux, Incorporated, was a corporation owning a large tract of land lying within the exterior boundaries of said Madera Irrigation District; that between said Madera Irrigation District and Miller & Lux,…