Hershey

This is an original proceeding based upon a petition filed in this court on the tenth day of October, 1932, wherein the petitioners prayed for a writ of mandate to be directed against Boy B. Cole, as County Treasurer of Yolo County, and as such, Treasurer of Beclamation District No. 1600, commanding him to estimate the amount of money necessary to pay the interest and principal maturing on January 1, 1933, on bonds of Beelamation District No. 1600, secured by what is known as “Assessment No. 1” of said district, in such a manner as not to allow as credits or payments on said assessment, either as principal or interest, of any bonds of said district maturing after January 1, 1933, which may have been surrendered for cancellation or as payment of assessments by any of the land owners of said district. Based upon this petition, what are the rights of petitioners, and what is their remedy, if any? . The respondent appeared only by demurrer.

Reclamation District No. 1600 is entirely within the exterior boundaries of Yolo County, and was created by an act of the legislature in 1913. In 1914 there was regularly levied upon the lands within said district an assessment in the sum of…