Ratto v. Board of Trustees

A petition has been filed herein for a writ of mandate to compel respondents, as members of the Board of Trustees of the City of South San Francisco, to call a special election to determine whether respondents, as such members of said Board of Trustees, shall be recalled. Respondents have demurred to the petition upon grounds of insufficiency of facts, uncertainty, ambiguity, unintelligibility, and want of jurisdiction of the court. An answer has also been filed.

In support of the demurrer respondents contend that the petition fails to allege the specific number of votes cast at the last…