CAL. TOLL BRIDGE AUTHORITY v. KUCHEL

Docket No. Sac. 6319.

40 Cal.2d 43 (1952)

251 P.2d 4

CALIFORNIA TOLL BRIDGE AUTHORITY (a Corporation), Petitioners, v. THOMAS H. KUCHEL, as State Controller, Respondent; CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Intervener.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

December 11, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, E.G. Funke, Assistant Attorney General, Ralph W. Scott, Deputy Attorney General, and Robert E. Reed, for Petitioners.

John W. Collier, City Attorney (Oakland), Daniel J. McNamara, Deputy City Attorney, Thomas M. Carlson, City Attorney (Richmond), Fred C. Hutchinson, City Attorney (Berkeley), J.P. Clark, City Attorney (Alameda), and J. Frank Coakley, District Attorney (Alameda), as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Ralph I. McCarthy and Lloyd C. Graybill for Respondent.

Dion R. Holm, City Attorney, Walker Peddicord and William F. Bourne, Deputy City Attorneys, A. Dal Thomson, Public Utilities Counsel, for Intervener.


SHENK, J.

The California Toll Bridge Authority seeks a writ of mandate to compel the respondent State Controller to audit and approve a claim for printing costs in connection with the Authority's resolutions to issue bonds to finance the construction of additional approaches to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The director of the Department of Public Works is also a petitioner. An alternative writ issued. The respondent filed a demurrer and an answer to the petition...

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