Thompson v. Perris Irr. Dist.
| Decision Date | 11 June 1902 |
| Docket Number | 849. |
| Citation | 116 F. 769 |
| Parties | THOMPSON v. PERRIS IRR. DIST. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Ninth Circuit |
C. C Wright, for plaintiff.
Works & Lee, for defendant.
Plaintiff on the 28th day of March, 1901, obtained judgment against the defendant, the Perris Irrigation District, for $8,306.75, on certain coupons attached to 61 bonds issued by said district the whole of said issue being 884 bonds. The board of directors of said district having neglected to make any assessment or levy for the payment of said coupons, plaintiff demanded of the board of supervisors of Riverside county that they make the necessary assessment and levy, which demand was refused, and thereupon plaintiff petitioned this court for a writ of mandate against said board of supervisors, directing them to make said assessment and levy. An alternative writ has been issued, and in response thereto the defendant and said board of supervisors have moved to quash said writ, and dismiss the petition therefor, and have also filed demurrers to said petition. The present hearing is on said motion and demurrers.
Mandamus is the proper remedy in the United States circuit court for collecting a judgment obtained therein against an irrigation district of California. Knox Co. v. Aspinwall, 24 How. 376, 16 L.Ed. 735; Weber v. Lee Co., 6 Wall. 210, 18 L.Ed. 781; Riggs v. Johnson County, 6 Wall. 193, 18 L.Ed. 775; Mayor v. Lord, 76 U.S. 409, 19 L.Ed. 704; U.S. v. City of New Orleans, 98 U.S. 397 25 L.Ed. 227; U.S. v. Knox County Court, 122 U.S. 318, 7 Sup.Ct. 1171, 30 L.Ed. 1152; Chanute City v. Trader, 132 U.S. 211, 10 Sup.Ct. 67, 33 L.Ed. 345. Where the board of directors of the district neglect or refuse to cause the necessary assessment and levy to be made, that duty devolves upon the board of supervisors of the county in which the office of said board of directors is situated (St. Cal. 1897, p. 267), and the writ may issue against said board of supervisors, in the event of their delinquency, to compel performance of said duty. Labette County Com'rs v. U.S., 112 U.S. 217, 5 Sup.Ct. 108, 28 L.Ed. 698; U.S. v. Knox County Court, supra. When so employed, the writ is not a new suit, but simply process essential to jurisdiction, and a substitute for execution to enforce the judgment. Riggs v. Johnson County, supra; Weber v. Lee Co., supra. It is not necessary that application for said writ be made by or on behalf...
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