California Supreme Court July 8, 1924, S. F. No. 11207. (Anglo London Paris Co. v. Johnson)

RICHARDS, J.

This application is for a writ of mandate wherein the petitioners seek to compel the respondent herein, as treasurer of the state of California, to sell and deliver to the petitioners certain 'bonds designated as “Highway bonds of the State of California” at the par value of three million dollars, which said bonds were bid for and purchased by the petitioners at a public sale thereof