Jardine

In the Superior Court of the State of California

In and for the County of Los Angeles.

John E. Jardine, Plaintiff, vs. City of Pasadena, Defendant. No. 121842.

Pasadena Orange Growers Association, Plaintiff, vs. City of Pasadena, Defendant. No. 121986.

Morris Cohn, et al. Plaintiffs, vs. City of Pasadena, et al. Defendants. No. 122550.

E. Fleur, et al. Plaintiffs, vs. City of Pasadena, et al. Defendants. No. 128051.

These cases are of genuine importance in their public aspects. They require the application to the rather unusual state of facts disclosed by the evidence of certain sound and well-established principles by administrative law.

*33 The concrete question for determination is whether and if so, to what extent the courts may correct alleged abuses of administrative discretion.

The several complaints, freed from technical expressions and unnecessary terminology, allege that the City of Pasadena has placed and is maintaining a pest house upon lands which are purchased out of proceeds derived from the sale of bonds voted by its electors “for the purpose of acquiring and constructing a waterworks and system to supply water to said city and its inhabitants”, a part of…