Taylor

Application for writ of mandate to compel defendants as members of board of trustees of city of Ocean Park to call an election to vote upon the disincorporation of that city, and to fix a date for such election within a reasonable time.

The petition sets out that the city of Ocean Park is a municipal corporation of the sixth class governed by a board of trustees composed of five persons; that the defendants are three of such trustees and that the other two, as petitioners are informed and believe, have tendered their resignation as members of said board; that petitioners as electors, owners of property and taxpayers in said city of Ocean Park, on the twenty-fourth day of June, 1907, filed with said board of trustees a petition signed by a majority of the qualified electors of said city, requesting said board of trustees to submit to the electors of said city the. question whether said city should disincorporate; that no action was taken on said petition until July 22, 1907, at which time said board of trustees, by the affirmative vote of all of the defendants, called said election and ordered the same to be held April 13, 1908, which date is the same day fixed by law for the…