Fox v. Bd. of Supervisors of San Mateo Cty.
California Supreme Court
Application to the Supreme Court for a writ of prohibition. On the 4th day of May, 1874, a petition was presented to the Board of Supervisors of San Mateo county, asking the Board to order an election to decide the question of a removal of the County Seat from the place where it was fixed by law.
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Application to the Supreme Court for a writ of prohibition. On the 4th day of May, 1874, a petition was presented to the Board of Supervisors of San Mateo county, asking the Board to order an election to decide the question of a removal of the County Seat from the place where it was fixed by law. The number of names attached to the petition was five hundred and forty-seven, and the number of votes cast in the county at the last preceding election was thirteen hundred and fifty-seven. Two petitions, identical in language, had been circulated and signed, and on one of them there were one…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Wallace, C. J.:
It is not claimed by the respondents that the petition presented to them on the 4th of May last, praying that an election for the removal of the County Beat of Ban Mateo county be ordered, was in point of fact signed by the requisite number of electors of" the county of Ban Mateo. It is insisted, however, that to the number of electors signing the *565petition as presented, there should be added the number of one hundred and eleven—being the names of electors who, (though they did not actually sign the petition presented to the Board), are found by the referee to have…
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