Riggin

The same legislation upheld in Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles v. Dockweiler, 14 Cal. (2d) 437 [ 94 Pac. (2d) 794 ], is challenged in this proceeding. A demurrer to the amended petition for an injunction was sustained without leave to amend, and the appeal is from the judgment which followed that order.

The petition held insufficient to state a cause of action, recites in considerable detail the provisions of the statutes passed at the special session of the legislature held in 1938 in order to take advantage of the United States Housing Act of 1937, 42 U. S. C. A., chapter 8, sections 1401 to 1430 (Stats. 1938, chaps. 1, 2, 3, 4; DBering’s 1939 Supp., Act 3483 et seq.). The allegations of fact are that the board of supervisors of Los Angeles County appropriated $50,000 for the use of the Housing Authorities Law Commission, of which $40,000 has been paid to it; that the Housing Authorities Law Commission has designated certain real property in the city of Los Angeles, but not in a slum area, as the site for a housing project; and that the housing authority is about to expend $3,000,000 for the construction of 500 houses in this area, to be operated for the…