Van Camp Sea Food Co., Inc. v. Newbert

This is a petition for a writ of mandate to be directed to the respondents in their capacity as the Fish and Game Commission of the State of California, commanding them to make “a determination and order determining that the capacity of the packing plant of petitioner for canning sardines is 18,000 tons per month, and allowing petitioner 4500 tons of sardines per month to be used in its reduction plant, being twenty-five per cent of the said capacity of the packing plant of petitioner, without condition or qualification.”

From the petition it appears that for several years last past petitioner…