Shepherd v. Board of Supervisors

This is an appeal in a proceeding in certiorari, from a decree of the Superior Court of San Joaquin County, canceling an order of the board of supervisors of that county which was previously made, authorizing the city of Stockton to annex certain uninhabited territory pursuant to the Statutes of 1899 and amendments thereto. (Stats. 1899, p. 37, and amendments thereto; 2 Leering’s Gen. Laws of 1931, p. 2590, Act 5163.) The order of the board was annulled on the theory that it was made without the formality of a legal hearing, without competent evidence that the territory sought to be annexed…