Smeltzer v. Miller

GRAY, C. All the questions involved in this appeal were stated by this court, thoroughly discussed and settled on the former appeal herein. (Smeltzer v. Miller, 113 Cal. 163.) Prior to that appeal the trial court had sustained a demurrer to the complaint, and this court, after reciting parts of the complaint, held that it stated a cause of action and that the demurrer should have been overruled. It appears that on the return of the case to the trial court an answer was filed and a trial had, and the fifth and sixth findings of the court are as follows:

“V. That on, to wit, the seventh day of June, 1894, the board of supervisors of said county of Monterey made and entered in the minutes of said board the following orders, to wit:

“ 'This being the time fixed to hear the report of the committee heretofore appointed to propose the rate of county printing and furnishing blanks for one year, from June 10, 1894, to June 10, 1895, and said report is presented to the 'board, and by the board accepted, and so fixed; and the following prices as proposed by the committee are adopted, to wit:

" 'For printing the proceedings of board of supervisors, per [43]square of two hundred and forty ems, nonpariel, twenty-five cents.

“ Tor ordinances, orders, notices, reports, et cetera, sixty cents per square for first insertion, and twenty-five cents per square for each subsequent insertion.

“ Tor delinquent tax list, sixty cents per square for first insertion, and twenty-five cents per square for all subsequent insertions.

“ 'On motion of J. T. Porter, seconded by T. J. Field, it is ordered that the minutes of the board of supervisors, and all orders, ordinances, notices, made by the board, and all printing ordered by the board of supervisors of Monterey county, be and are hereby awarded to the “Salinas Weekly Index” (a weekly newspaper printed and published in Salinas City) for one year, commencing June 10, 1894, and ending June 10, 1895/ ”

“VI. That during the entire year of 1895 said board of supervisors of said Monterey county failed, neglected, and refused to advertise for bids for publication of the delinquent tax list of said county of Monterey for the year 1894-95, and said board of supervisors of said Monterey county failed, neglected, and refused to contract or award any contract for said publication with the lowest or any bidder after ten days, or any public or any notice that such contract would be let; that no sealed proposals or bids were ever received by said board of supervisors for the publication of said delinquent tax list, and the making of the' orders of said board of supervisors mentioned in finding V were the only provisions made by said board of supervisors for the publication of said or any delinquent tax list.”