Zellerbach

This is an application for a writ of mandate directing the defendant board to issue to the petitioner a revocable permit to take and use ten thousand tons of sardines to manufacture an edible fish flour. The petitioner alleges that it is a corporation having its principal place of business in San Francisco; that it owns and operates a “ ... manufacturing plant located in the city and county of Monterey, State of California . . . ”; that it has been operating continuously since the year 1924 under and by virtue of a permit issued by respondents on the twenty-second day of August, 1925; and pleads in haec verba said permit; that on the eighth day of July, 1929,.the petitioner applied for a revocable permit, and pleads in haec verba said application; that a hearing on said application was had on the twenty-ninth day of July, 1929; that on the fifth day of August, 1929, the defendant board entered in its minutes an order directing the issuance of a revocable permit for the season of 1928-29; that on the fifteenth day of August, 1929, the defendant board caused a letter to be sent to the petitioner advising the petitioner of its action and authorizing petitioner to proceed until the…