County of Los Angeles v. Lopez

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES v. F. E. LOPEZ, Auditor, etc.

Cnty. of Los Angeles v. Lopez, 38 P. 42 (Cal. 1894)

Court: California Supreme Court · State Highest Courts
Decided: September 29, 1894
Docket: No. 19474
Citations: 38 P. 42104 Cal. 2571894 Cal. LEXIS 893

Cited by 4

Headnotes

Power or Board of Supervisors — Office of License Tax Collector. — The board of supervisors of a county have no authority to create the office of license tax collector. Id. — Case Affirmed. — The case of Eldorado Oounty v. Meiss, 100 Cal. 268, affirmed.

Summary

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.

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Opinion of the Court

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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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Cited by 4 cases

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Relies on it most ⓘ

Logan v. Shields214 P. 46 (Cal. 1923)
Brooks v. Stewart218 P.2d 56 (Cal. Ct. App. 1950)
Ventura County v. Clay44 P. 488 (Cal. 1896)
City of Woodland v. Leech127 P. 1040 (Cal. Ct. App. 1912)

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Brooks v. Stewart218 P.2d 56 (Cal. Ct. App. 1950)
Logan v. Shields214 P. 46 (Cal. 1923)
City of Woodland v. Leech127 P. 1040 (Cal. Ct. App. 1912)
Ventura County v. Clay44 P. 488 (Cal. 1896)

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Authorities cited 2

Depth	Case	Cited by
	People v. Ferguson, 4 P. 4 (Cal. 1884)	21
	Cnty. of El Dorado v. Meiss, 34 P. 716 (Cal. 1893)	19

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