People ex rel. Hoffman v. Hecht
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Searls, C.
This is a proceeding by quo warranto, brought in the superior court to determine by what authority the defendants, as individuals or as a board, are acting as a board of fifteen freeholders to prepare and propose a charter for the city and county of San Francisco.
Two several demurrers were interposed to the complaint: one by and on behalf of William B. Bourn and I. W. Heilman, two of the defendants, and the other by all the defendants.
The demurrers, and each of them, were sustained by the court, and the relator declining to amend, final judgment went for the defendants, from which…
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