Batcheller

April 6, 1891, certain persons presented to the board of supervisors of Los Angeles County a petition for the formation of a levee district under the act of March 10, 1891, entitled “ An act to provide for the organization and government of levee districts created for the protection of lands from overflow of innavigable running streams of water,” etc. (Stats. 1891, p. 30), to be called the Fruitland Levee District. Such proceedings were afterwards had that the board of supervisors declared such district organized; and after other steps provided for by the act had been taken, the defendants were elected as the board of directors of said district; and they were about to issue and sell certain *473 bonds of said district, when the plaintiff commenced this action to restrain them from so doing. A portion of plaintiff’s complaint was stricken out against her objection, and the defendants having answered, the case was heard by the trial court, and judgment rendered for defendants. From the judgment, and from an order denying a new trial, plaintiff appeals.

1. The lands included in the district lie along the Los Angeles River, and the main contention of appellant is, that the petition…