City of Grass Valley v. Walkinshaw

In this proceeding the petitioner, city of Grass Valley, seeks the writ of mandate to compel the respondent, its auditor, to extend on the city’s property tax rolls, in addition to the tax for general municipal purposes, a special levy *597of 63 cents to discharge the 1950 payments of interest and principal on bonded indebtedness. The controversy is submitted on an agreed statement of the case pursuant to sections 1138-1140 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

In 1921 the petitioner, then a city of the sixth class, adopted a freeholders’ charter (Stats. 1921, p. 1889) and thereby accepted the privilege…