Martin v. Board of Supervisors

This is an appeal from a judgment of the superior court in a proceeding of mandamus requiring the appellant to-estimate the costs of erecting a county high school building, of furnishing the same, and of conducting the school for twelve months.

Waiving all other questions arising out of the somewhat complicated legislation on the subject of high schools, we do not think that the acts which the judg*669ment compels appellant to perform are acts which tie law specially enjoins; because no lot of land had been acquired upon which to erect the building. The promise of Ross and Bush to “vouch” that the…