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· 4/28/1891

Volcano Cañon Road Co. v. Board of Supervisors

Citations

  • 88 Cal. 634
  • 26 P. 513
  • 1891 Cal. LEXIS 751

Syllabus

<p>Toll-road — Rates of Toll—Duty of Supervisors — Mandamus. —- The hoard of supervisors of a county wherein a toll-road is situated has no right arbitrarily to refuse, but is in duty bound, to fix toll rates, after a demand by the toll-road corporation that the board fix the rates of toll, and they may be compelled to fix the rates by writ of mandate.</p> <p>Id.—Validity off Incorporation — Title to Toll-road. — The question as to whether the toll-road company was ever legally incorporated, and as to whether it had ever been or was the owner and entitled to the possession of the toll-road, of which it had possession for more than fifteen years, cannot be inquired into by the board of supervisors on an application to fix its rates of toll, or in a proceeding by mandamus to compel the board to fix rates.</p>

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Judges: Belcher

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