Clunie

Application for a writ of mandamus. The petitioner seeks by this proceeding to compel the respondent, who is the assessor of the city and county of San Francisco, to assess the property of the Market Street Railway Company as required by sections 3648 and 3649 of the Political Code, upon the ground that said property escaped assessment and taxation for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1895, by reason of misrepresentations of the officers of said corporation as to the value of said property. It is alleged in the petition that the said corporation, on the first Monday of March, 1895, was, and thence hitherto has been, the owner of certain real and personal property situated in the city and county of San Francisco, subject to taxation, and *595 that said property has been during all of said time of the actual cash value of $17,500,000, and would have been taken in payment of a just debt due from said corporation for that sum of money; that between the first Mondays of March and July of the year 1895 said corporation, through its officers and agents, willfully and falsely represented to the respondent, while he was endeavoring to ascertain the full cash value of said property, in…