Lake Merced Water Co. v. Cowles

By the Court, Shafter, J.:

This is a petition for a mandamus to the County Judge of the City and County of San Francisco, commanding him to appoint Commissioners in a proceeding pending before him for the condemnation of certain lands and waters to the uses of the petitioner herein.

It appears that the application for the appointment of Commissioners came on to be heard on proper papers on the day named in the notices, and that the allegations of the petition were proved by affidavits, to the sufficiency of which no exception was taken, and that no counter evidence was offered by the…