O'Melveney

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of defendants on demurrer. Plaintiffs sue as citizens and taxpayers and also as members of the board of park commissioners of the city of Los Angeles, to enjoin the defendants, claiming to act as officers of the city under certain ordinances, from carrying out the provisions of such ordinances and from interfering with the powers and duties of the park commissioners. The defendant Griffith J. Griffith has offered to erect, at his own expense, for the city of Los Angeles, to become the property of the city, two structures, one a “Greek theater,” costing not less than fifty thousand dollars, in Vermont Canyon; the other a “hall of science and observatory,” costing not less than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, on Mt. Hollywood, both in a certain public park of the city of Los Angeles, known as “Griffith Park.” The donor proposed that the plans for said buildings were to be furnished by him, subject to the approval of the city council and mayor, or a com mittee, and the structures were to be erected under the supervision of three citizens appointed for that purpose by the mayor of the city, thereto authorized by ordinance. The city…