Hamilton

Coronado Beach, formerly known as the peninsula of San Diego, was for several years the subject of dispute as to whether it was within or without the territorial limits of the city of San Diego. A decision of the former district court, rendered in the year 1877, held it to be no part of such city; from the judgment in that case—not entered until eleven years later «—an appeal was taken to this court, where the judgment was' reversed, and it was determined that said peninsula is “ within the limits of the city of San Diego, and land situated on said peninsula is subject to assessment and taxation for city purposes.” (San Diego v. Granniss, 77 Cal. 511 .) This was in December, 1888. The question arose in other forms (People v. San Diego, 85 Cal. 369 ; Fisher v. Police Court, 86 Cal. 158 ); but the case of San Diego v. Granniss, supra, remained authoritative as to the legal questions decided—not to say the points of local geography involved—and established that the peninsula was, and had been since the passage of the act to reincorporate the city of San Diego, April 1, 1876, an integral part of the city.

. The present case grew out of that controversy. In January, 1887, the…