Migliavacca v. City of Napa

This is a direct application to this court for a writ of prohibition, the purpose of which is to restrain the respondents—the city of Napa and its mayor, city clerk and councilmen—from submitting to the voters of the said city of Napa certain proposed amendments to the charter, to be voted upon by said voters at the general municipal election to be held in said city on the third day of May, 1909.

The city of Napa, as a municipal corporation, is governed by a freeholders’ charter, adopted in accordance with the requirements of section 8 of article XI of the constitution.

It appears from the…