Matter of Bonds of Reclamation Dist. 900

This action was instituted in the superior court in and for the county of Yolo by the trustees of the above named reclamation district for the purpose of securing a judgment of said court determining and decreeing that certain bonds issued by said reclamation district and delivered to the treasurer of Yolo County, on the fifteenth day of July, 1912, are a legal obligation of said district. This proceeding is authorized by section 3480 of the Political Code as said section was amended by the legislature of 1911. (Stats. 1911, pp. 648, 652.)

The complaint was filed on the seventeenth day of July, 1912, and, on the same day, summons was issued and, in accordance with the requirement of the statute under which the action was brought, published for a period of three weeks in the Mail of Woodland, a newspaper of general circulation. Within ten days after the last publication of the summons— the twelfth day of August, 1912—the Reed Orchard Company, a landowner within said reclamation district, interposed and filed a general demurrer to the complaint. On the third day of September, 1912, the plaintiff caused to -be served upon the attorneys for the Reed Orchard Company a notice that they…