Bradley

Plaintiff, a taxpayer, seeks -to enjoin the defendants the board of election commissioners of the city and county of San Francisco, and defendant the registrar of voters, from expending any money, making or drawing any demands in writing upon the funds of said city and county for the purpose of procuring to be held and holding in said city and county a general election in November, 1903, to fill the offices of mayor, eighteen supervisors, auditor, treasurer, assessor, tax-collector, recorder, city attorney, district attorney, public administrator, county clerk, sheriff, and coroner, which said offices it is alleged in the complaint (filed September 24, 1903), were then held by incumbents elected at the regular general election in November, 1901. It is alleged that the expenditure threatened to be made by defendants “will be unnecessary and illegal and a charge and burden on this plaintiff and all taxpayers in the city and county,” who, it is alleged, are without adequate remedy at law. A demurrer was interposed on several grounds, which was sustained, and plaintiff declining to amend, defendant had judgment, which was rendered prior to the holding of said election. Plaintiff…