Legal Opinion
Bayless v. Limber
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 27, 1972No. Civ. 40127PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
COBEY, J.
Leonard Bayless and Florentin J. Peame, citizens, electors and residential property owners in the City of Whittier, have petitioned this court for a writ of mandate directing the city council and the city clerk to process an initiative petition, proposed by petitioners and others, to amend the Whittier Municipal Code to 1 prohibit oil well drilling within that portion of the city zoned residential.
The threshold question presented by the petition for a writ of mandate is whether in this case the remedy by appeal, which initially was available to petitioners, was not “a plain,…
2Cases cited34 opinions
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- Lockard v. City of Los AngelesCalifornia Supreme Court · 1949
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- Hopping v. Council of City of RichmondCalifornia Supreme Court · 1915
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3Cited by20 opinions
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- Duran v. CassidyCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1972
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