Pridham

The board of supervisors of Los Angeles County, claiming authority so to do under and by virtue of the provisions of a certain act of the legislature entitled, “An act to promote the drainage of wet, swamp and overflowed lands, and to promote the public health in the communities in which they lie,” approved March 21, 1903 (Stats. 1903, p. 354), the title to which and the act were amended in 1915 (Stats. 1915, p. 359), in a proceeding instituted therefor by petition, created and established a drainage district designated as “Los Angeles County Drainage District No. 1,” the boundaries of which embrace certain territory in the city of Long Beach. When the proceedings had progressed to a point where the contract for constructing the drainage improvement had been awarded for the doing of the work and contract therefor executed, petitioner, as an owner of land in the district, brought this proceeding attacking the proceedings as in excess of the jurisdiction of the board. Petitioner asserts that the law under which the board of supervisors assumed to act is invalid, and hence the proceedings so had and thereunder taken by the board of supervisors for the formation of the district, award…