Miller & Lux Inc. v. Board of Supervisors

The respondents had judgment in an action wherein the appellant petitioned the Superior Court of the County of Madera for a writ of review for the purpose of inquiring into the validity of an order of the Board of Supervisors relative to the establishment and organization of the Madera Irrigation District. The petition sets forth, among other things, that the appellant is the owner of certain lands in the county of Madera lying within the exterior boundaries of the Madera Irrigation District, and was such owner at all times herein mentioned; that on the third day of November, 1919, A. M. Acton and others presented to the Board of Supervisors of the County of Madera a petition for the formation of an irrigation district to be known as the Madera Irrigation District. The petition was drawn pursuant to the act of March 31, 1897, and the amendments thereto; 310,000 acres of land are included within the boundaries of the district.

The petition alleges that on the third day of November, 1919, the Board of Supervisors continued the hearing of the petition until the seventeenth day of November, 1919, on which date the petition came on for hearing, and thereupon the Board of Supervisors…