Denman v. Webster

Appellant applied to the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco for a writ of mandate, requiring the defendant, as such superintendent of schools of said city and county, to draw his requisition upon the auditor of said city and county for the sum of five hundred dollars, to he paid to appellant upon the order of the board of education. The defendant demurred to the petition, the demurrer was sustained, the writ denied, and the petitioner appeals.

The circumstances under which appellant’s said services were rendered, as alleged in his petition, were, that in October, 1900, the…