Norman

A writ of certiorari was issued by the superior court of Los Angeles County, directed to the board of supervisors of that county for the purpose of reviewing the proceedings leading up to the creation of the “Moneta County Fire Protection District of Los Angeles County” under the provisions of “An Act to provide for the formation, management and dissolution of county fire protection districts, and annexations thereto, setting forth the powers of such districts and providing for levying and collecting taxes on property in such districts to defray the expense thereof” (Hillyer’s Consolidated Supplement, pt. 2, p. 2707). From the return to the writ it appears that a petition was filed for the establishment of the district, and that the board of supervisors determined that it should be formed. Notice of the time and place fixed for “a hearing of the matter of the formation” was published, as required, in the “Gardena Reporter,” which newspaper was deemed by the board most likely to give notice to the inhabitants of the territory embraced in the resolution, of the proposed formation of the district. Written objections by fifty-nine freeholders were presented and heard and thereafter…