Ryder v. City of Los Altos

Plaintiff sued for a writ of mandate to require the defendants to call a special election on a petition seeking an election to vote on the question of the disincorporation of the city. The defendants had denied the petition and had refused to call an election on the grounds that it was barred by the then existing provisions of section 1702 of the Elections Code, which then read:

“No petition for the dissolution or disincorporation of a city, or city and county, may be circulated until after the expiration of two years from the date that such city, or city and county, was incorporated.”

The…