Holbrook

The petitioner seeks a writ of mandate directed to the Board of Directors of the Imperial Irrigation District, the individual members thereof and its secretary, to prevent these persons from including the offices of treasurer and assessor-collector of the district on the ballot at the general irrigation election to be held in February, 1937. As a resident of and the owner of land within the district, petitioner asserts its officers are proposing to accept nominations for the disputed offices and to provide ballots indicating that these offices are to be voted for.

*160 The Irrigation District Act (Stats. 1897, p. 254, as amended, Stats. 1927, p. 187; Deering’s Gen. Laws 1931, Act 3854) provides that “an election, which shall be known as the general irrigation district election, shall be held in each irrigation district on the first Wednesday in February in each odd-numbered year”. (Sec. 19.) It appears that at such election held in February, 1931, F. H. McIver was regularly elected to the office of treasurer and Yinnie Barry was elected assessor-collector for the four-year terms expiring in March, 1935. These offices were voted for at the general irrigation election held in…