Crall v. Board of Directors of Poso Irrigation District

Citations

• 87 Cal. 140
• 26 P. 797
• 1890 Cal. LEXIS 1109

Syllabus

<p>Irrigation Districts—Wright Act — Constitutional Law — Corporations. — The Wright act (Stats. 1887, p. 29), providing for the organization of irrigation districts, is constitutional, and the districts organized under its provisions are public corporations. 1</p> <p>Id. — Confirmation of Organization — Proceeding in Rem—-Status of District-—Power to Issue Bonds.—-A special proceeding by the directors of an irrigation district, brought under the act supplemental to the Wright act (Stats. 1889, p. 212) providing for special proceedings in the superior court for the confirmation of the organization of the district and of the issue and sale of bonds, is in the nature of a proceeding in rem to determine the status of the district, and its power to issue valid bonds.</p> <p>Id. — Constructive Service of Process — Jurisdiction — Res Apjudicata. — In such proceeding, constructive service of process by publication and posting, as prescribed by the Wright act, is sufficient to give the court jurisdiction of the subject-matter and of the partios, and its judgment is valid and binding as against them and all the world, upon all questions involved in the case, until reversed on appeal, or set aside by some direct proceeding instituted for that purpose.</p> <p>Id. — Injunction — Sale of Bonds — Defects in Organization — Plea in Bar. — Such judgment is a valid plea in bar to an action to enjoin the sale of bonds of the irrigation district, brought by a party constructively served with process in the proceeding in mm, and no alleged defects in the organization of the district can he reviewed in the injunction suit.</p>