Waugh v. Chauncey

Citations

• 13 Cal. 11

Syllabus

<p>The Board of Supervisors of a county is a special tribunal with mixed powers—administrative, legislative, and judicial—and jurisdiction over roads, ferries, and bridges, is given to it by statute. Its judgments or orders, cannot be attacked collaterally, any more than the judgments of Courts of Record.</p> <p>The statute, (Wood’s Dig. 460,) gives such Board discretionary power over the location of new bridges and ferries within a mile of those previously established. And if, in the opinion of the Board, public convenience requires, such new bridges and ferries may be so located.</p> <p>It is doubtful whether an appeal lies from the exercise of this discretion. But if it does, it must be made direct to some superior tribunal.</p>