Mason v. Palo Verde Irr. Dist.

'On September 5, 1940, this court decided the case entitled West Coast Life Ins. Co. et al., v. Merced Irrigation District, and the opinion rendered at that time is reported in 114 F.2d 654 [certiorari denied Pacific Nat. Bank of San Francisco v. Merced Irr. Dist., 311 U.S. 718 , 61 S.Ct. 441 , 85 L.Ed. 467 ]. Numerous and important questions of law relative to the constitutionality of Chapter IX of the Bankruptcy Act of 1898, as amended, 11 U.S.C.A. §§ 401-404 , and the legality of acts of Reconstruction Finance Corporation furnishing money to rescue irrigation districts from financial distress, were raised in this case and exhaustively treated in the opinion. We shall have occasion in this opinion to refer to this case and shall refer to it simply as the Merced case.

Following the Merced case, this court decided a number of irrigation district bankruptcy cases, each of which raised some points treated in the Merced opinion, together with other points peculiar to each separate case. Each case raised a point *715 common to it and the Merced case, as well, and this court decided the point in accord with and by reference to the Merced opinion and decision. These cases are: Moody et…