Denton

This is an action for a writ of mandate to compel the board of supervisors of the county of Colusa to approve a bond presented by appellant to the board upon an application made by him for a license to conduct a saloon in Maxwell precinct in said county. The board declined to approve the bond, for the reason that the electors in Maxwell election precinct at the last general election voted that no saloon licenses should be issued in that precinct. Issues were properly joined, a trial had, at the conclusion of which the court made findings of fact from which it drew its conclusions of law. Judgment thereon passed for respondent board and this appeal was taken therefrom.

The court found that the appellant at the beginning of the license year commencing on the first day of November, 1907, filed an application for a license to maintain and conduct a saloon in Maxwell election precinct for the sale of liquors, and complied with all the requirements of the ordinance known as No. 49; and that the board of supervisors rejected and denied the appellant’s application and refused such license. It further found that ordinance No. 49 was duly enacted on the seventh day of October, 1903; that…