Imperial Valley press., 1925-05-01
Work On Shops
TO Be Rushed
During Summer

Another signal victory for the Inn
perial District was scored this MORN
ing in the superior court, when
Judge +. M. Jamison sustained the
demurrer of the district to the COM
plant filed by William Branden-
berg, petitioning for an injunction
to restrain the district from remov-
ing its shops from Calexieo to Inn
perial.
The court ordered the dissolution
of the temporary injunction grant
ed by the superior court, which has
held up the work of construction,
and further that the plaintiff take
nothing by his action and that he
be required to defray the costs of
the defendant.
Construction on the shops, which
was interrupted several weeks ago
by the granting of the restraining
order, will be Immediately resumed,
Secretary McIver stated following
the rendition of the decision today,
and every effort will be made to
have them completed before the
end of the summer.
In view of Judge Jamison's 8 de.
cision, district officials hardly em
pect that the suit filed by Branden.
berg to set aside the resolutions
changing the district divisions, can
be decided against them. This
lphase of the action will be heard on
May 10.
In rendering his decision, Judge
Jamison said in part: ''The grounds
for the action are: First, that three
of the directors, Pound, Aten and
Rose, contrived by political trade,
in bad faith and by subterfcge, for
their owh pirate ends, anil not hav
ing the best interests of the district
in mind, in passing on November
%, 1921 two res .lut;ons, one being
for the re-subdividing of the dis
trict by which the boundaries of
these sub bdistricts were materially
changed and the other resolution
providing for the removal of the
shops, general offices and property
of the district from Calexico to I'M
perial.
Fear the Expense
"Seeondly; That such removal
will impair the efficient and eco
Inomical management and admins
tration of the affairs of the dis
trict, particularly its management
and administration of its major
works, which aIe located south of
said district, in Mexico, and will
in addition place upon the district
an indebtedness exceeding one hun
| dred thousand dollars, which the
said district can i'll afford to car
rv, being already largely indebted
and will also, to q considerable ex-
! tent, render valueless the buildings
now owned by the district at Calex-
leo and the lots upon which these
, buildings stand.
AS to the first ground herein-
before set forth the court finds
that there is no sufficient or salts
| factory evidence produced in this
case establishing any trade, politl-
cal or otherwise, between the diree-
tors in the passage of said resolu-
I tions. If bad faith existed, or
wrongful motives actuated the di-
rectors in the passage of said reso-
+; lutions, the burden rested upon the
plaintiff to prove these things, and
this. in the opinion of the court, he
has failed to do.
Imperial Now Center
/ Some Is months ago the machinery
and work shops for the heavy work
ON the machinery of the district
was moved to and established at
, Imperial. The principal work shop
and store house is now situated at
that point. Imperial is near the
center of the district, and other
things being equal would seem to
| be the logical point for the general
shops and headquarters of. the dis
trict
! Plaintiff contends that the cons
tinnation of the general offices, in-
lcluding that of the chief engineer,
at Calexico is necessary because the
major operations of said district
are in Mexico. and much nearer to
| Calexico than they are to Imperial;
that the greater danger to the irri-
CATION system of the district lies in
Mexico, where is located the main
canal that delivers water from the
Colorado river TO the district.
| 1t appears that only small por~
| tion of the dredges and machinery
belonging to the district are used ~
| Mexico; that all of the heavy 9nrk
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