People Ex Rel. Jones v. Cardiff Irrigation District

Quo warranto. By order of the board of supervisors of the county of San Diego, under date of March 20, 1916, respondent herein was organized as an irrigation district, in compliance with the provisions of the California Irrigation District Act and amendments thereto. (Stats. 1897, p. 254; Stats. 1915, p. 1367; Stats. 1917, p. 751. Also in Deering’s Gen. Laws 1915, p. 701, and Consolidated Supplement of 1917-19, p. 1282.) As originally formed, the district contained about 1,000 acres of land. By subsequent proceedings the area thereof was reduced to 616.8 acres. Thereafter, on the fourteenth day of October, 1918, a petition was filed with the hoard of directors of the district praying for a change of boundaries of the district so as to include therein the lands described in the petition, which additional lands contained 25,751 acres. This petition was signed by the owners of more, than one-half of the territory which they sought to have included within the district. Thereafter, on the twenty-third day of December, 1918, the board of directors of the district passed its resolution No. 44, purporting to change the boundaries of the district by including therein said additional area,…