People ex rel. Frank v. Bd. of Supervisors of San Francisco
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Twelfth Judicial District. This was an application for a writ of mandamus to compel the defendants to make provision, from the revenues of the City and County of San Francisco, for the payment of a certain judgment obtained against the City of San Francisco, and in case said revenues are insufficient for said purpose, to levy a tax for the payment thereof, as provided in section four of an act entitled “ An Act to Repeal the several Charters of the City of…
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Appeal from the Twelfth Judicial District. This was an application for a writ of mandamus to compel the defendants to make provision, from the revenues of the City and County of San Francisco, for the payment of a certain judgment obtained against the City of San Francisco, and in case said revenues are insufficient for said purpose, to levy a tax for the payment thereof, as provided in section four of an act entitled “ An Act to Repeal the several Charters of the City of San Francisco, to establish the Boundaries of the City and County of San Francisco, and to Consolidate the Government…
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
Cope, J. and Norton, J. concurring.
*695On the nineteenth of April, 1856, the Legislature passed an act for the government of the City and County of San Francisco, commonly known as the “ Consolidation Act.” Its first section provides that the City of San Francisco shall continue a corporation by the name of the City and County of San Francisco, and possess the same rights and be subject to the same liabilities as before. Its second section vests in the city and county the public buildings, lands, and property, rights of action, money, revenue, and income belonging either to the City or to the…
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