Opinion
Docket No. S.F. 12728.
December 31, 1928.
PROCEEDING in Mandamus to compel Surveyor-General of the State of California to issue permit to prospect for oil and gas upon tide and submerged lands. Writ denied.
Clarke Bowker and James C. Hollingsworth for Petitioner.
U.S. Webb, Attorney-General, for Respondent.
Flint Mackay, Frank P. Flint, Arthur R. Smiley, Alexander T. Sokolow and E.W. Miller, Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent.
THE COURT.
[1] For the reason assigned and upon the grounds stated in our opinion this day filed, in which we considered together cases S.F. Nos. 12707 to 12766, both inclusive, ante, p. 148 [ 273 P. 797], the application of Charles M. Workman for a writ of mandamus commanding the surveyor-general of the state of California and ex-officio register of the state land office to issue to him a permit to prospect for oil and gas upon the lands described in his said petition, wherein said lands are included within the boundaries of lands described in the respective petitions of Boone and Shudde, as therein considered, is denied and the petition is dismissed.
Rehearing denied.
Shenk, J., and Curtis, J., voted for a rehearing.