City of Redding v. Holland

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to require the respondent as Clerk of the City of Redding to countersign and execute municipal bonds in the sum of $200,-000, which were voted at an election and authorized by ordinance of the city for defraying the cost of a proposed sewage system. The respondent demurred to the petition on the ground that it fails to state facts sufficient to warrant the issuance of the writ.

The respondent contends that the bonds are void because the ordinance calling for the election stated that “at least one-thirty-eighth part of the principal sum of said…