Thompson

Petitioner is the owner of certain improvement bonds issued as a result of three distinct improvements *667 initiated by the City of Compton under the 1911 Improvement Act (Stats. 1911, p. 730, as amended), the bonds being issued under the Bond Improvement Act of 1915 (Stats. 1915, p. 1441, as amended). He seeks the writ of mandamus to compel the respondent city and its officers, and the respondent county tax collector to levy and collect a tax on all of the taxable property in the city for the purpose of paying the principal and interest on his bonds. The cause is submitted to this court on the petition for the writ, the demurrer and motion to quash of respondents, their return, and on a stipulation as to the facts.

It appears that petitioner owns the only bonds of the three issues here involved that have not been paid, and that the amount due thereon, principal and interest, is about $17,000. The main defense of the respondents is that the tax sales at which the city purchased the property were invalid. On this point respondents urge the same points as were raised by respondents in Hammond v. City of Burbank, L. A. No. 15223 (ante, p. 646 [ 59 Pac. (2d) 495 ]), this day…