Patty v. Colgan

This is an appeal by Hon. E. P. Colgan, state controller, from a judgment of the superior court of San Diego County directing the issuance of a peremptory writ of mandate requiring him to draw a warrant in favor of the board of supervisors of San Diego County in the sum of five thousand dollars for the benefit of the sufferers from the Tia Juana floods of February 22, 1891.

The application of the plaintiff and the judgment of the court were based upon the provisions of an act entitled “ An act to appropriate the sum of five thousand dollars for the benefit of the sufferers from the Tia Juana…