Box v. Young

Appeal from judgment on the pleadings in favor of plaintiffs. The question involved is correctly stated by the appellants in the following language: “When a recall petition, sufficient in all respects, has been filed with the secretary of the board of directors of an irrigation district, and after the secretary has made complete examination, but before his certificate is made or said certificate and petition presented to the board of directors, the major portion of said petition is stolen and lost, does such loss divest the secretary of authority to make his certificate and divest the board…