Turlock Irrigation District v. Williams
California Supreme Court
This is a proceeding to compel the respondent, the secretary of Turlock Irrigation District, to sign certain bonds ordered to be issued against said district by the board of directors thereof. ' The act under which said district was organized, and upon the authority of which it is asked that the respondent be compelled to sign said bonds, was approved March 7, 1887. The first section of said statute provides for the organization of irrigation districts upon petitions filed…
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This is a proceeding to compel the respondent, the secretary of Turlock Irrigation District, to sign certain bonds ordered to be issued against said district by the board of directors thereof. ' The act under which said district was organized, and upon the authority of which it is asked that the respondent be compelled to sign said bonds, was approved March 7, 1887. The first section of said statute provides for the organization of irrigation districts upon petitions filed with the board of supervisors by fifty or a majority of freeholders owning land susceptible of one mode of irrigation…
1Opinion of the Court
Foote, C.
This is an application for a writ of mandate to compel the defendant, as the secretary of an irrigation district (under the “act to provide for the organization and government of irrigation districts,” etc., approved March 7, 1887, Sess. Laws, p. 29), to sign certain bonds which .the applicant proposes to issue under section 15 of that act.
The refusal of the defendant to sign those instruments is based upon the ground that the statute is unconstitutional and void.
One of the distinguished counsel for the defendant contends that the districts contemplated by the act are private…
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