McGinnis v. Mayor and Common Council
California Supreme Court
PETITION for Writ of Mandate to Mayor and Common 'Council of the City of San Jose. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. . Partridge & Jacobs, Charles S. Wheeler, and J. P. Bowie, for Petitioner. P. B. Brown, J. E. Richards, Cobb & Rea, J. C. Campbell, William B. Bosley, S. P. Leib, Amicus Curios, and Harry L. Titus, and Morrison, Cope & Brobeck, Amici Curia, for Respondents.
1Opinion of the CourtAngellotti, J.
Application for writ of mandamus, prayed to be "directed against the mayor and common council of the city of San Jose, a municipal corporation.
Plaintiff, a resident, citizen, and taxpayer of the city of San Jose, seeks by this proceeding to obtain a writ of mandate requiring the defendants to advertise a pending application for a franchise for certain street railroads in.said city, in the manner provided by an act of the legislature of the state of California entitled “An act providing for the sale of street railroad and other franchises in counties and municipalities, and providing…
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