Robison

The petitioner herein applies for a writ of mandate to be directed to the respondent herein in his capacity as a justice of the peace of the township of Long Beach, county of Los Angeles. The particular facts upon which he bases his application and upon which the same is resisted are embraced within the stipulation of the parties as to the facts of the case and are as follows:

It being an admitted fact herein that Long Beach township now and at all the times mentioned in the petitioner’s application lay and still lies partly within and partly without the city of Long Beach, it follows that the decision of this court this day filed in the case of Bakkenson v. Superior Court, etc., ante, p. 504 [ 241 Pac. 874 ], interpreting the scope and meaning of the recent amendment to section 11 of article VI of the state constitution, relating to the creation of municipal courts, has application to the situation presented in this proceeding, and hence that as to the township of Long Beach which lay, and according to the stipulation of the parties hereto yet lies, partly within and partly without the boundaries of the city of Long Beach, the jurisdiction of the justices’ courts within such…