Martin

Mandamus to compel the trustees of the city of Menlo Park to call a recall election. The petition recites that within three months last past petitioner and other qualified electors prepared and circulated a petition for the recall of Alfred E. Blake and Alexander Walker as trustees and members of the city council of the city of Menlo Park and in said petition demanded the election of a successor to each of said persons sought to be recalled. It is alleged that the petition was signed by qualified voters of said city in excess in number of twenty-five per cent of the entire vote cast within such city for all candidates for the office of trustee and member of city council of the city of Menlo Park at the last preceding regular municipal elec tion at which two trustees and members of the city counsel sought to be recalled were voted for. The petition contained a statement of the grounds on which the'recall was sought and alleged that each signer to said petition of recall added to his signature, at the time of signing, his place of residence and occupation, giving street and number, or proper designation of his place of residence so that the same could be readily ascertained, and…