Reclamation District No. 1500 v. Reclamation Board

This application is for a writ of mandate whereby the petitioner seeks to have the respondents commanded to allow and provide for the payment of certain sums of money alleged to he due from the respondent Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District to the peti tioner, arising ont of the construction of certain levees constituting a portion of the Sutter-Butte by-pass system of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District, and the purchase by the latter thereof from said petitioner. The original application contained four counts. By the first of these the applicant sought to have the…