City of Los Angeles v. Hance

This is a petition of the city of Los Angeles, a municipal corporation, for a writ of mandate to compel the respondent, city clerk of said city, to sign and certify to the passage by the city council of the city of a certain ordinance calling a special election and submitting to the qualified voters of the city certain propositions for incurring municipal debts in the form of bonds, and to present the same to the mayor of the city for his approval. An alternative writ was issued, and on the return day the case was argued and submitted. The respondent bases his refusal to do the act demanded…