People v. Van Nuys Lighting District
California Supreme Court
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. U. S. Webb, Attorney-General, Leonard B. Slosson, and Edgar Sharp, for Appellant. J. D. Fredericks, District Attorney, O’Melveny, Stevens & Millikin, and Walter K. Tuller, for Respondents.
1Opinion of the Court
The court below sustained a general demurrer to the complaint and the plaintiff refused to amend, whereupon judgment was given for the defendants.
The action is in quo warranto to determine the validity of the incorporation and organization of the Van Nuys Lighting District of Los Angeles County.
Said lighting district claims to be a public corporation organized under and in pursuance of the act of March 20, 1909 (Stats. 1909, p. 551). The other defendants are members of the board of supervisors of Los Angeles County, which board is, by section 11 of said act, given the authority to exercise…
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