People ex rel. Alexander v. Swift
California Supreme Court
This action was commenced in the Supreme Court. The Act of April 25th, 1863, created a municipal corporation called the City of Sacramento. The Act provided for the election of a Board of three Trustees, to have the management and control of the affairs of the corporation.
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This action was commenced in the Supreme Court. The Act of April 25th, 1863, created a municipal corporation called the City of Sacramento. The Act provided for the election of a Board of three Trustees, to have the management and control of the affairs of the corporation. An Auditor was also to be elected, whose duty it was to examine all claims against the city, and satisfy himself that they were correct, and due and unpaid, and were authorized by law, and then to indorse on the claim his approval and the fund out of which it was to be paid, and then draw his warrant on the Treasurer for…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Shafter, J.:
This is an application for a peremptory mandamus against the respondent, as President of the Board of Trustees of the City of Sacramento, to compel him to sign a certain warrant drawn by the Auditor on the Treasurer of said city for the sum of five hundred and seventy-four dollars and thirty-eight cents, for work done and materials furnished by the relator in repairing and improving the Police Court room of said city.
The referee to whom the case was sent to find and report *28the facts, has found that the services constituting the basis of the relator’s claim were not…
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