Chambers

This is an application for a writ of mandate compelling the controller to issue his warrant for the payment of plaintiff's claim. As the matter was one of emergency and as at the argument we were fully convinced that the writ should issue, it was so ordered from the bench. By the request of all parties we will state the ease and the reasons for our conclusion.

It appears from the petition as follows: That the Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District is “a body politic and corporate created by the act of the legislature of this state, approved December 24, 1911” (Stats. 1911, Extra Session, p. 117), as amended and supplemented by the act of May 26, 1913 (Stats. 1913, p. 252), and was further amended and supplemented by the aet of June 9, 1915 (Stats. 1915, p. 1338), which said act of 1911, as amended by said-act of 1915,'“is known and designated and referred to as the ‘Reclamation Board Act’ as provided in section 31 of said acts as so amended and supplemented”; that the reclamation hoard referred to in the petition was created and exists as provided for in said Reclamation Board Aet; “that the man agement and control of the said Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District is…