People v. Board of Supervisors
California Supreme Court
Application to the Supreme Court for writ of mandate to compel the Board of Supervisors of the County of Alameda to make an order calling an election to determine the question of the removal of the county seat, under sections three thousand nine hundred and seventy-six to three thousand nine hundred and eighty-five of the Political Code.
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Application to the Supreme Court for writ of mandate to compel the Board of Supervisors of the County of Alameda to make an order calling an election to determine the question of the removal of the county seat, under sections three thousand nine hundred and seventy-six to three thousand nine hundred and eighty-five of the Political Code. On the 10th day of December, 1872, a petition was presented to the Supreme Court, praying for an alternative writ of mandate to the Board of Supervisors of Alameda County. The petition stated that, on the 22d day of October, 1872, the relator presented to…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Wallace, C. J.:
The motion .of the petitioner for a peremptory writ of mandamus upon the pleadings is denied.
The motion to strike out the answer of the respondents is sustained, except as to that portion of the answer which is in the following words, viz.:
“And denies, upon information and belief, that there were, in fact, the number of one thousand four hundred and fifty-two, or other number equal to one third of all the votes cast at the last preceding general election in said county, of genuine names of electors of said county, signed to the *398said petition, whose names were on…
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