Mann v. Brison

THOMPSON (IRA F.), J.

The petitioner sought in the court below a peremptory writ of mandate compelling the clerk of the city to certify the sufficiency of certain names signed on papers protesting against an ordinance adopted by the city council of Long Beach. The superior court denied the writ and petitioner prosecutes this appeal.

The sole question necessary to a disposal of the case involves the sufficiency of seventeen papers containing 3,113 signatures. It was stipulated by the parties that the “oaths to each of said papers was made by a person who was not a signer of the paper to which…