CITY OF PORT HUENEME v. CITY OF OXNARD

Docket No. L.A. 25345.

52 Cal.2d 385 (1959)

341 P.2d 318

CITY OF PORT HUENEME, Appellant, v. CITY OF OXNARD et al., Respondents. CITY OF OXNARD, Respondent, v. CITY OF PORT HUENEME, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 24, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome H. Berenson, City Attorney, Burke, Williams & Sorenson and Royal M. Sorenson for Appellant.

Joseph W. Goss, City Attorney, for Respondents.

Robert T. Anderson, Assistant City Attorney (Berkeley), Walter N. Anderson, City Attorney (Manhattan Beach), Paul B. Baker, City Attorney (Alturas), Homer H. Bell, City Attorney (Monrovia), John R. Berryhill, City Attorney (Tulare), Thomas W. Bewley, City Attorney (Whittier), Louis A. Boli III, City Attorney (Folsom), Lloyd A. Bullock, City Attorney (Compton), LeRoy A. Broun, City Attorney (Fremont), Robert Buck, City Attorney (Seal Beach), Robert A. Boon, City Attorney (Roseville), Jerome J. Bunker, City Attorney (Palm Springs), John G. Buresh, City Attorney (San Anselmo), Waldo E. Burford, City Attorney (Porterville), Joseph B. Burgess, City Attorney (Dos Palos), John M. Burnett, City Attorney (Manteca), Henry M. Busch, City Attorney (Upland), Hartley H. Bush, City Attorney (Oakdale), Donald P. Cady, City Attorney (Susanville), Stanley B. Christensen, City Attorney (Fullerton), Richard M. Clare, City Attorney (Santa Maria), John W. Collier, City Attorney (Oakland), J.P. Correia, City Attorney (Yreka), Lloyd M. Creasey, City Attorney (Crescent City), Sherrod Stone Davis, City Attorney (Woodside), Pierce Deasy, City Attorney (Ione and Jackson), F. Joseph Doerr, City Attorney (El Cajon), G.A. Drescher, City Attorney (Wasco), John B. Ehlen, Attorney for the Town of Corte Madera and City of Sausalito, Daniel M. Fadenrecht, City Attorney (Corcoran), Robin D. Faisant, Attorney for the Town of Los Altos Hills, Wm. A. Flory, City Attorney (San Bernardino), Reginald E. Foster, City Attorney (Pacific Grove), John A. Galvin, City Attorney, (Fillmore), John T. Ganahl, City Attorney (Corona), R.E. Ghidella, City Attorney (Napa), H.E. Gleason, City Attorney (Turlock), Edward A. Goggin, Deputy City Attorney (Oakland), B.D. Goodman, City Attorney (Fairfield), Haskell Goodman, City Attorney (Milpitas), J.E. Greene, City Attorney (Dinuba), Allen Grimes, City Attorney (Modesto), R.S. Harrington, City Attorney (Brawley), Arthur J. Harzfeld, City Attorney (San Mateo), Francis Hoey, City Attorney (Martinez), Fred C. Hutchinson, City Attorney (Berkeley), Bernard M. King, Assistant City Attorney (Fremont), William Kinley, City Attorney (Rolling Hills), Lynn W. Kloepfer, City Attorney (Ontario), F.A. Knight, City Attorney (Signal Hill), Manuel L. Kugler, City Attorney (Chula Vista), Anthony A. Lagorio, City Attorney (Los Altos), Monroe N. Langdon, City Attorney (Stockton), Morgan W. Lowery, City Attorney (La Verne), L.N. Lorenzen, City Attorney (Mount Shasta), Kee Maxwell, City Attorney (Paramount), Richard B. Maxwell, City Attorney (Santa Rosa), Mike Mayo, City Attorney (Montebello), Thomas F. McBride, City Attorney (Concord), Alexander J. McMahon, City Attorney (Sonoma), Edmund M. Moor, City Attorney (Red Bluff), Bobley E. Morgan, City Attorney (Santa Clara), Alfred G. Mortimore, City Attorney (Shafter), Robert H. Mullen, City Attorney (Lodi), George G. Murry, City Attorney (Gustine, Los Banos and Newman), Thomas C. Nelson, City Attorney (Mill Valley), John R. Nimocks, City Attorney (Palo Alto), John Noonan, City Attorney (South San Francisco), Lowell Palmer, City Attorney (Calistoga), Frank L. Perry, City Attorney (Redondo Beach), Grayson Price, City Attorney (Chico), J.A. Ratchford, City Attorney (Cloverdale and Healdsburg), David Rice, City Attorney (Hawthorne), D.R. Robinson, City Attorney (Auburn), Carl E. Rodegerdts, City Attorney (Woodland), Donald D. Roff, City Attorney (Santa Paula), Frank W. Rose, Assistant City Attorney (San Mateo), Chester E. Ross, City Attorney (Hollister and San Juan Bautista), Ralph W. Rutledge, City Attorney (Colusa), John W. Scanlon, City Attorney (Hayward), Charles B. Snow, City Attorney (Newark), L. De Witt Spark, City Attorney (Roseville), C.A. Stromsness, City Attorney (Corning), Wm. A. Struthers, Jr., City Attorney (Pleasanton), M. Tellefson, City Attorney (Culver City), Wm. M. Thornton, City Attorney (Exeter), George Wadsworth, City Attorney (Tracy), Saul M. Weingarten, City Attorney (Gonzales and Seaside), C.F. Woolpert, City Attorney (Indio), Cecil C. Wright, City Attorney (Orange), and Russell Zaches, City Attorney (Monterey), as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.


SCHAUER, J.

These two mandamus proceedings, consolidated for trial, findings, and judgment, come before this court on appeal by the city of Port Hueneme (hereinafter called Hueneme) from a superior court judgment upholding two annexations of territory by the city of Oxnard (hereinafter called Oxnard), and declaring void an annexation undertaken by Hueneme of territory which overlaps in part that sought to be annexed by Oxnard. The periods of time (from about March...

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