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On the twenty-seventh day of March, 1917, an action was commenced in the superior court of San Bernardino County by Grant Holcomb and others, electors in'the city of San Bernardino, against the county clerk of San Bernardino County, to compel the clerk to cancel certain registrations of voters. The action was instituted in accordance with section 1109 of the Political Code, which reads as follows: “Any person may proceed by action in the superior court to compel the clerk to cancel any registration made illegally, or that ought to be canceled by reason of facts that have occurred subsequent to the time of such registration; but if the person whose name is sought to be canceled be not a party to the action, the court may order him to be made a party defendant.” Section 1111 of the same code reads as follows: “In an action under the authority of section eleven hundred and nine the clerk and as many persons as there are causes of action against may be joined as defendants.”

The object of the action was to obtain cancellation of registrations of three groups of persons separately listed in Exhibits “A,” “B,” and “C,” of the complaint. It was alleged that each of the persons named in…