De Baker v. Batcheller

Citations

• 97 Cal. 472
• 32 P. 512
• 1893 Cal. LEXIS 571

Syllabus

<p>Levee District — Petition for Formation. — A petition for the formation ol a levee district under the act of March 10, 1891 (Stats. 1891, p. 30), need be signed only by a majority of freeholders owning lands along the stream within the proposed district, and not by a majority of all the freeholders owning lands subject to overflow along the entire course of the stream, whether within the district or not.</p> <p>Id. — Publication of Petition — Description of Boundaries — Reference to Annexed Plat not Published. — Where a petition for the formation of a levy district under such act fully stated the boundaries of the proposed district with minute detail, and the body of the petition was published as required by the act, the publication is not rendered fatally defective by failure to publish a plat of the boundaries, merely because the petition contained a provision that “ the said proposed boundaries of said district are shown approximately by the plat thereof hereunto annexed.”</p>