People ex rel. Hunt v. Board of Supervisors
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Twelfth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The relator commenced the action on the 6th day of April, 1861, and upon judgment having been rendered against him in the Court below, appealed. The other facts are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Rhodes, J.
Jonathan Hunt, the former Tax Collector of San Francisco, filed his petition in the District Court for a writ of mandamus to compel the Board of Supervisors of said city and county to approve his demand upon the Treasury for commissions alleged to be due him for the collection of taxes. The Court, having issued an alternative writ and the cause having béen heard, denied the petitioner’s motion that the mandamus be made peremptory and dismissed the proceedings, on the ground that the relator was not entitled to his remedy in that proceeding. The respondents now insist…
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