Four men look over building plans. They include California Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Waste, 2nd from left, and Associate Justice Emmet Seawell, far right.
Justice John W. Preston of the State Supreme Court and US Attorney for the Southern District of California Peirson M. Hall stand next to each other. Hall is smiling to someone off the left side of the picture. Preston is facing the camera and smiling slightly.
Possibly related to the article “Girl Gets Way--In Air, Injunction Denied in Fight to Bar Actress From Plane Trip.” Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 1927: 11. The article states: Petition for an injunction to prevent Helene Millard, an actress at a Hollywood theater, from flying to the bedside of her father, Royal Millard, reported ill in San Francisco, was denied yesterday by Judge Baird after the court had inspected the airplane said to have been chartered by Miss Millard, and pronounced it safe for the flight…