Ells

Certiorari. On the fifteenth day of November, 1915, there was presented to the board of supervisors of San Diego County a petition for the formation of an irrigation district under the provisions of an act entitled, “An act to provide for the organization and government of irrigation districts,” etc., approved March 31, 1897, and the amendments thereto (Act No. 1726 of the 1915 Edition of Deering’s Gen. Laws of California), such district to be known as and called “Cardiff Irrigation District.” Thereafter, in attempted compliance with the statute, such proceedings were had that on the twentieth day of March, 1916, the board of supervisors, by order entered upon its minutes, declared that the territory described therein was thereby duly organized as an irrigation district under the name above stated. In this proceeding, wherein a writ of review has been issued and upon which return has been duly made, the petitioner seeks to have judgment that said order of March 20, 1916, and the orders made in said matter by said board of supervisors prior thereto, be annulled.

The statute provides that a petition proposing the organization of an irrigation district must be signed by a majority…