Gett v. Board of Supervisors

Citations

• 111 Cal. 366
• 43 P. 1122
• 1896 Cal. LEXIS 589

Syllabus

<p>Mandamus—Parties not Interested—Constitutionality of Primary Election Law.—A petition by a taxpayer of Sacramento county for a writ of mandate to the supervisors of that county, commanding them to perform the duties imposed upon election commissioners and boards of supervisors by the act of March 27, 1895, relating to primary elections, must be denied for want of interest of either of the parties in that act, it being expressly limited to counties of the first and second class, consisting only of the city an'd county of San Francisco and the county of Los Angeles, as those classes are defined by the latest County Government Act to which the primary election law is intended to refer; and the question of the constitutionality of that law cannot be decided upon the submission of parties not interested therein.</p>