People ex rel. Finigan v. Perkins

Gibson, C.

On the nineteenth day of January, 1887, Governor Bartlett issued a commission to the relator, appointing him a director of the state board of agriculture for the term of four years, which began on February 1st of the same year, as prescribed by section 4 of the act of 1880. (Stats. Cal. 1880, p. 49.) The commission was forwarded from the capítol at Sacramento to San Francisco by Wells, Fargo, & Co.’s express, addressed to the relator, at the latter place, but was not received by him until the seventeenth day of February, 1887, prior to which time he had no notice of his appointment…