Wilson v. Fisher

This is a proceeding instituted in this court to obtain the issuance of a writ of mandate requiring the defendant, as auditor of El Dorado County, to draw his warrant for the salary of plaintiff, Wilson, as superintendent of schools of said county, for the month of July, 1905. Plaintiff has been holding said office ever since January, 1903, and discharging the duties thereof, under a certificate of election issued in pursuance of a declaration that he had been duly elected to said office, made by the board of supervisors of said county on their canvass of the returns of the general election…