Hunter

Plaintiffs and appellants brought this action in the Superior Court of Santa Barbara County to recover the sum of $98,670.95 as damages for breach of contract. A trial was had resulting in a judgment for defendant and respondent. This appeal is from such judgment and is brought here upon the judgment-roll alone.

The facts of the case, as found by the trial court, are as follows: Some time prior to January 5, 1920, a permanent road division known and designated as the. Permanent Road Division of Lompoc had been regularly created covering a portion of Santa Barbara County. On January 5, 1920, a petition was presented to the board of supervisors of said county asking for the improvement of certain specified roads in said road division and on February 2d of that year said board of supervisors, by proper resolution, ordered that an election be called and held in the district for the purpose of submitting to the electors thereof the question of the issuance and sale of bonds in the amount of four hundred thousand dollars for the purpose of raising money to carry on and complete the work of improving the roads so specified and described in said petition. The election, so called, was,…