Garten

Michael P. Garten, publisher of the “News-Ledser,” a paper of West Sacramento in Yolo County, filed a petition in the superior court to have its standing as a newspaper of general circulation in the county ascertained and established. (Gov. Code, § 6020.) In due course, the owner *208 and publisher of the “Woodland Record,” a competing newspaper in Yolo County filed' objections to the petition. After the publication of a requisite notice to the public, a formal hearing was held and the superior court denied the petition. While several points were urged against the granting of the petition, the case was decided on one issue only; the trial court correctly concluded that the “printing” of the paper on a monthly average for more than 50 percent of the year previous .to the filing of the petition took place in a county other than Yolo (Gov. Code, § 6003). The copies of the “News-Ledger” circulated to the subscribers were produced by the offset printing method. Generally speaking, all of the work, mechanical and otherwise, necessary to produce the master sheet df this weekly paper was done in Yolo County, but the press work, except for three issues, was effected in the City and County…