City of Redondo Beach v. Cate

This is a proceeding by mandamus to compel the city treasurer to sign certain improvement bonds and coupons. A peremptory writ was awarded upon the facts alleged in the petition, the defendant having declined to answer after his general demurrer was overruled.

It appears that in January, 1900, Redondo Beach was a city of the sixth class; that its board of trustees, proceeding under the act of March 19, 1889, authorizing the incurring of indebtedness by municipal corporations (Stats. 1889, p. 399), passed an ordinance declaring that the public interests and necessity of the people of that city…