Murray v. Board of Supervisors

Citations

• 23 Cal. 492

Syllabus

<p>The District Courts have power to grant writs of certiorari, to review the action of a Board of Supervisors in granting a ferry license.</p> <p>A complaint which avers that plaintiff is the owner of a ferry franchise over a stream, and that the Board of Supervisors have granted license to-another person to establish a ferry within less than one mile of plaintiff’s ferry, without having published the notice required by statute; and that such ferry is not required by public convenience, nor rendered necessary by the intervention of any creek or ravine; and that the reason given by the board, in their minutes, for granting the license, was, that no legal excuse was shown why it should not he granted, states sufficient facts to authorize the issuance of a writ of certiorari.</p>