Central Pacific Railway Co. v. August Costa

The petitioner Railway Company petitioned the court below for an alternative writ of mandate to compel the respondents, as members of and constituting the board of supervisors of the county of Sierra, to enter upon the minutes of said board an order directing the auditor of said county to cancel certain assessments of taxes levied upon certain real property of petitioner and, further, to cancel the certificates of sale of said lands and “any deeds to the state executed in pursuance of said sale,” or to show cause why they have not done so upon applications theretofore made by petitioner to…