Bricker v. Banks

This is an original application for a writ of mandate to compel the city clerk of Stockton to certify and file two petitions, one for the recall of a city councilman and the other for the recall of four other city councilmen, and to compel the city council to call a special election to determine whether the councilmen named in the petitions shall be recalled. The city clerk refused to certify and file either petition on the ground that in each of them the statement of the reasons for demanding the recall contained more than two hundred words and one of them on the further ground that it…