Christy v. Board of Supervisors
California Supreme Court
This case arose upon a petition to the Supreme Court, in the exercise of original jurisdiction, for a writ of mandate, to compel the Board of Supervisors of Sacramento County to canvass the votes cast for Supervisors in the third, fourth and fifth districts of that county, at the general election in 1869. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCrockett, J.
By an Act of the Legislature, passed in 1863, Sacramento County was divided into five districts, in each of which a Supervisor was to be elected, to hold his office for two years and until his successor should be elected and qualified. (Stats. 1863, jd. 503.) The elections were, therefore, to be biennial, and all the five offices were to become vacant at the same time. Under the provisions of this Act, five Supervisors were elected at the general election in 1863, whose terms. expired on the first Monday of October, 1865. At the general election of that year, their successors were elected,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People v. HastingsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1866
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