Inyo Development Co. v. Board of Supervisors

This is an appeal from a judgment and order of the superior court of Inyo county dismissing a writ of review. It appears from the record that on April 6, 1909, more than ten persons representing themselves to be freeholders within the county of Inyo, and representing that more than two of them were at the time residents of the road district wherein the proposed road is situate, and who were taxable therein for road purposes, petitioned the board of supervisors to lay out, open, construct and maintain in the fourth road district a public road whose termini, width and general route were specified in the petition; that said petition was accompanied by a good and sufficient bond in double the amount of the probable cost of viewing and laying out the proposed road, conditioned as provided by statute, which bond was duly approved. Thereafter, on the 8th of April, the board of supervisors met and said petition was by them considered, and evidence was presented upon the part of the petitioners showing the genuineness of the signatures attached to the petition; that at least ten of the petitioners were freeholders who would be accommodated by the proposed road; that more than two of them…