Newsom v. Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County

This is a second application to this court for a writ of mandate to compel the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County to submit to the electors of said county, pursuant to the initiative provisions of the constitution and section 4058 of the Political Code, a proposed ordinance, the purpose of which is to grant to the Northern California Development Company, a corporation, a franchise to construct and maintain a toll-bridge across the Straits of Carquinez, which forms the boundary between the county of Contra Costa and the county of Solano. On the first application the writ was denied.…