SIMPSON v. HITE

Docket No. L.A. 21678.

36 Cal.2d 125 (1950)

222 P.2d 225

J.E. SIMPSON, Petitioner, v. BENJAMIN S. HITE, as Registrar of Voters, etc., Respondent; LOS ANGELES COUNTY COURTHOUSE COMMITTEE et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

September 29, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Loeb & Loeb, Herman F. Selvin and Dana Latham for Petitioner.

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel, A. Curtis Smith, Assistant County Counsel, and Clarence H. Langstaff, Deputy County Counsel, for Respondent.

Morrow & Trippet, Fred M. Cross, Oscar A. Trippet, F.B. Yoakum, Jr., Bailie, Turner & Lake, Robert Baker, Bodkin, Breslin & Luddy, Henry I. Dockweiler, Louis T. Fletcher, Freston & Files, Haas & Home, Elmer H. Howlett, Clifford E. Hughes, F.A. Knight, Kenyon F. Lee, L.H. Phillips, John W. Preston, Stanton, Stanton & Wellborne, Irving Walker, Westover & Smith, Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Emmet H. Wilson, Jr., J. Marion Wright and E.R. Young for Real Parties in Interest.


SCHAUER, J.

Petitioner asks that this court by mandate direct respondent, registrar of voters of Los Angeles County, to omit a proposed initiative ordinance from the ballot to be used at the general election to be held November 7, 1950. The principal provisions of the proposed ordinance, in substance and effect, are (1) the repeal of resolutions of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors which designate, and pursuant...

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