Weaverville & Minersville Wagon Road Co. v. Board of Supervisors

The plaintiff applied to the Superior Court of Trinity County for a writ to compel the respondent to fix the rates of tolls to be taken on the Weaverville and Miners-ville Wagon Eoad, which the plaintiff claims to own.

The defendant filed an answer in which it denied that the plaintiff was the party beneficially interested in the proceedings for obtaining a writ, denied that W. S. Lowden, who made the affidavit, upon which the application for the writ was based, had any right or authority to make said affidavit on behalf of the plaintiff, and alleged that the plaintiff had no interest in said…