Oakland Paving Co. v. Hilton

This is an application by plaintiff, a corporation, to the Superior Court of the county of Alameda for a writ of mandate to the defendant, commanding him, as city marshal of the city of Oakland, to enter into and execute a certain contract for grading, curbing, and macadamizing to the official grade a portion of a street in the city of Oakland, and to fix the times for the commencement and completion of the work to be done under the said contract, which the said defendant had refused to sign and execute.

In obedience to an alternative writ, the defendant appeared, and by his answer showed…