Board of Supervisors v. Cothran

By this proceeding the Board of Supervisors of the County of Merced and the Merced Union High School District seek a writ of mandate to compel respondent, who is the county clerk of Merced County, to sign certain bonds in the sum of $800,000, which bonds were voted at a special election held by the Merced Union High School District on May 16, 1947, for the purpose of securing authorization to issue the aforesaid bonds. The purposes for which said bonds were proposed to be issued, as stated in the notice of the election, was to raise money for(a) The purchase of a school laboratory farm.(b)…