Mitchell v. Taylor

This is a petition for a writ of mandate to compel respondent, clerk of this court, to file a transcript on appeal without payment of fees.

Petitioner is the Insurance Commissioner of the State of California. In accordance with statute (Deering’s Gen. Laws 1931, Act 3739) he was by order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County appointed liquidator of the Union Automobile and Casualty Company, an insolvent in suranee corporation. As snch liquidator he paid certain state taxes under protest and sued to recover them. Judgment was rendered against him, and he took the appeal in which, as above…