Bigelow

It appears from the complaint that a petition was filed with defendant board, signed by the requisite number of qualified electors of the first supervisorial district of Sonoma county, praying that the said board call an election at which should be submitted to the electors of said district the following proposition: ‘ ‘ Shall the sale of alcoholic liquors be licensed in this supervisorial district outside of incorporated cities and towns 1 ’ ’ That thereafter, to wit, on March 7,1912, the county clerk and ex-officio clerk of said board duly certified said petition as sufficient and presented the same to the said board as required by law; that in violation of law the said board did, on March 8, 1912, at a regular session thereof, “call a pretended election for May 14, 1912, and at a time more than sixty days from the time said petition was certified as aforesaid, and upon which said last-named date there is no general election to be held in said district, county or state.”

The cause came on to be heard on March 16, 1912, and the court ordered the said board “to meet forthwith in legal session and rescind the order of said board made' on March 8, 1912, setting an election to…