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1 verifiedetition of the p party beneficially interested (see Code 2 of Civil Procedure Section 1086) . 3 Special Interest or Right as Sufficient. A petitioner 4 has a sufficient beneficial interest in issuance of a writ of 5 mandate by possession of some special interest to be subserved or 6 some particular right to be preserved or protected independent 7 from that held in common with the public at large. A private 8 citizen may apply a 1 for a writ of mandate "where there is not a 9 plan , speedy , and adequate remedy" at law and he is a "party 10 beneficially interested . " (Code of Civil Procedure, Section 11 1086 . ) One who has some special interest to be subserved or some 12 particular right to be preserved or protected independent of that 13 which he holds in common with the public at large has a 14 sufficient beneficial interest , (Fuller v. San Bernardino Valley 15 Mun . Wat , Dist . , 242 Cal .App. 2d 52 , 57 [ 51 Ca1 , Rptr . 1201 ; 16 Kappadahl v . Alcan Pacific Co. , 222 Ca1 ,App. 2d 626 , 643 [ 35 17 Cal . Rptr . 354 ] ; Tustin Heights Assn. v . Bd . of Supervisors, 18 supra , 170 Cal . A p pp. 2d 619 , 636-637 . ) (Taschner v, City Council 19 ( 1973 ) 31 Cal App3d 48, 55-56, 107 Cal Rptr 214, overruled on 20 other grounds in Associated Home Builders of the Greater Eastbay, 21 Inc, v. Livermore (1976) 18 Cal3d 582, 596 fn 14, 135 Cal Rptr 22 41 , 557 P2d 473) . 23 Similarly petitioners in the instant case have a 24 sufficient beneficial interest as they both own residential 25 which the use and property quiet enjoyment is being denied 26 petitioners because of respondents ' failure to remove the mounds 27 of contaminated soil and pipe, concrete, and equipment debris 28 from the undeveloped corner lot , 4