Harrison v. Powers
California Court of Appeal
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco, enforcing a writ of mandate. John J. Van Nostrand, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Percy V. Long, City Attorney of the City and County of San Francisco, and J. F. English, Assistant City Attorney, for Appellants.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
Plaintiff, a citizen of this state, filed a petition in the superior court praying for a writ of mandate to compel the defendants to permit him to inspect and make a copy of the census reports of school children in the official custody of defendants, and which privilege or right the defendants had denied- to plaintiff.
Defendants demurred to plaintiff’s petition, and at the same time filed an answer, affirmatively setting up substantially that plaintiff’s only purpose in seeking to inspect and copy such reports was that he might use the information thus obtained in canvassing for the sale to…
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