Board of Education v. Davidson

The petitioner is seeking by writ of mandate to compel the defendant, the Superintendent of Schools of Marin County, to call an election to choose a school board for the government of the high school of the city of San Rafael, in said county.

Prior to 1912 San Rafael was a city of the fifth class and, with some outlying contiguous territory, constituted an elementary school district. Within this district a high school was organized and maintained, thereby constituting the district a city high school district under section 1721 of the Political Code, which provides that “any city school…