Tuolumne County v. Stanislaus County
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Fifth Judicial District, County of Tuolumne. This was an application in the Court below, to compel the supervisors of Stanislaus county to audit the account ofTuolumne county, of $16,500, and issue a warrant therefor in favor of the treasurer of the last named county.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Fifth Judicial District, County of Tuolumne. This was an application in the Court below, to compel the supervisors of Stanislaus county to audit the account ofTuolumne county, of $16,500, and issue a warrant therefor in favor of the treasurer of the last named county. The petition alleges that the sum above named was ascertained and settled to be due by Stanislaus county to Tuolumne county, by a board of commissioners appointed by the county judges of the two counties, in pursuance of the law of 1854, creating the former out of the latter county; the said…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by Mr. Justice Heydenfeldt
Mr. Chief Justice Murray and Mr. Justice Terry concurred.
By an Act of the Legislature of 1854, the County of Stanislaus was created, and was carved wholly out of the territory of the County of Tuolumne. The latter county being at the time in debt, the Act provides that a just proportion of the debt should be assumed by the newly created county; for this purpose the County Court Judges of each county are authorized to appoint commissioners to ascertain and settle the amount of indebtedness the County of Stanislaus shall assume.
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