Odell v. Rihn
California Court of Appeal
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Contra Costa County, refusing a writ of mandate to the board of supervisors of that county. R. H. Latimer, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtLennon, P. J.
Section 4014 of the Political Code of this state declares that “The officers of a township are two justices of the peace. ... In townships containing cities in which city justices or recorders are elected there shall be but one justice of the peace, and in townships having a population of less than 5,000 there shall be but one justice of the peace. ...”
The appellant here, who was the petitioner in the proceeding below, seeks by mandamus to compel the respondents, as the board of supervisors of Contra Costa county, to declare him one of the duly elected justices of the peace of the fifteenth…
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