City of Coronado v. City of San Diego

This is an application for a writ of prohibition, to prevent respondents from levying a tax for municipal purposes upon property situated within the corporate limits of petitioner. A general demurrer to the petition was sustained by the trial court, and the legal sufficiency of the petition is the only matter before us.

After alleging the corporate existence of the city of San Diego, that the territory forming the city of Coro*441nado was originally a portion of the city of San Diego, but had been set off, and the city of Coronado created therefrom in accordance with the requirements of the law,…