People ex rel. Hirschberg v. Board of Supervisors of Orange County

I am unable to agree with my brethren in their

affirmance of the action of the board of supervisors and dismissal of the certiorari proceedings. I have great difficulty in reaching a conclusion on the question presented by the relator in this voluminous record. 1 agree that a board of supervisors acting as a board of audit is not bound by strict common-law rules of evidence, and that its determination should not be reversed for error in the exclusion or admission of evidence unless such error clearly affeete’d its determination to the prejudice of the relator. (People ex rel. Cochran v. Town…