Ratchford v. County of Sonoma

In Ratchford v. County of Sonoma (1972) 22 Cal.App.3d 1056, a property owner sought a writ of certiorari regarding a county's abandonment of a small triangular portion of a public road on which a corner of a neighbor's residence was situated on the ground that the county lacked jurisdiction to abandon the portion of the road in question. (Ratchford, at pp. 1059, 1062.) The Ratchford court held that the abandonment of a portion of a road where opposition is filed by someone with a direct property interest by virtue of being an abutting land owner is a "judicial" decision, not a legislative decision. (Id. at pp. 1066-1069.)