People ex rel. Central Pacific Railroad v. Board of Supervisors
California Supreme Court
The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco consisted of twelve members. The Board held a meeting, and by a majority vote passed the following resolution : “ Resolved, That the City and County Attorney be, and he hereby is requested to represent the Board of Supervisors and the members thereof in the proceedings lately instituted against said Board and Wm.
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The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco consisted of twelve members. The Board held a meeting, and by a majority vote passed the following resolution : “ Resolved, That the City and County Attorney be, and he hereby is requested to represent the Board of Supervisors and the members thereof in the proceedings lately instituted against said Board and Wm. Loewy, by the People of the State of California, upon the relation of the Central Pacific Railway of California, and other litigation upon the same subject, with a view to an early and definite determination of all the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Rhodes, J.
Proceedings were commenced in this Court for a mandamus, to compel the Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco to countersign four hundred of the bonds of said city and county, and to compel the Board of Supervisors of said city and county to perform all the duties required on their part for *668the complete execution and delivery of the bonds to the Central Pacific Railroad Company, according to the provisions of the Acts of the Legislature of April 22, 1863, and April 4, 1864, and of the ordinance of said city and county, Number Five Hundred and Eighty-Two.
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