Farney

The above-entitled proceedings were separately commenced by the petitioner seeking writs of mandate to compel the respondent Port District and its Board of Port Commissioners to take certain action, hereinafter to be specified, in connection with licensing him as a pilot in and for the respondent district. Inasmuch as the two proceedings more or less complement each other, we shall consider and determine the issues involved in one opinion.

It appears that the proceeding first above entitled (Sac. No. 5265) originated in the Superior Court in and for the County of San Joaquin by the filing of a petition wherein the petitioner alleged that the respondents had theretofore issued to him a pilot commission for the term of one year and that prior to the expiration thereof and without cause or notice to him had suspended and revoked the same. It was prayed that a peremptory writ issue compelling the respondent board to reinstate the pilot commission or license theretofore issued to him and which had not then expired. Following several amendments of the petition, respondents’ demurrer thereto was sustained without leave to amend. Petitioner appealed from the judgment thereafter entered…