County of Los Angeles v. Lopez
California Supreme Court Sep 29, 1894 No. No. 19474Published
Synopsis
Appeal from a judgment oí the Superior Court of Los Angeles County.
The action was brought by the county of Los Angeles to restrain the county auditor from delivering a warrant to E. C. Hodgman for salary as license tax collector, and to restrain the treasurer from paying the warrant, upon the ground that the office of license tax collector was unlawfully created by the supervisors.
The Court.- The judgment appealed from in this case is affirmed on the authority of the case of Eldorado County v. Meiss, 100 Cal. 268, in which it was held that the board of supervisors had no authority to create the office of license tax collector, and in which the case of the People v. Ferguson, 65 Cal. 288, was also expressly overruled on this point.
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