McPherson v. City of Los Angeles

This case was transferred to this court after decision by the District Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division One, reversing a judgment that a peremptory writ of mandate should issue to compel the appellants to pay interest on a decree in a condemnation action, tried in the Superior Court in Tuolumne County, fixing the compensation for the' condemned property. The District Court of Appeal was of the opinion that the ease came within the rule that the writ of mandate cannot be used to require the payment of interest upon a principal sum admittedly due. Reliance was placed upon…