Mitchell v. Walker

NOURSE (Paul), J. pro tem. *

The plaintiffs, as residents and taxpayers of the city of Monrovia, a city of the sixth class, seek a writ of mandate to compel the defendants, as the council of that city, to submit to a vote of the electorate of the city an initiative ordinance which by proper petition had been submitted to the defendants and which they have refused to adopt.

On filing of the petition, we issued an alternative writ and the defendants have made return to that writ by demurrer and by answer. In view of the conclusion that we have reached, that the general demurrer must be sustained,…