Abbey

An application was made to the supreme court for a writ of mandate commanding the directors of the Honcut-Yuba Irrigation District to declare petitioner elected to the office of director of division 1 of said district and commanding one P. M. Turner, secretary of said board of directors, to issue to petitioner a certificate of election to such office. The supreme court ordered the alternative writ to issue and made it returnable before this court. The parties appeared and agreed upon the facts as follows: The Honcut Irrigation District is a duly organized and existing irrigation district; the individual defendants named as directors were the duly elected, qualified, and acting directors thereof; the defendant Turner is the duly appointed, qualified, and acting secretary of the board of directors; the district is divided into five divisions, numbered 1 to 5, inclusive, and in the petition for organization the prayer was and the supervisors so ordered, in establishing the district and fixing its boundaries, that the election of directors in the district be at large; Charles F. Cox and C. N. Hill were the directors of divisions 1 and 5, respectively ; on June 27, 1922, an election…