Lockhart v. Wolden

This is an original proceeding in which the petitioner asks this court to issue its writ of mandate directed to respondent, as Assessor of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, compelling him to allow to petitioner the exemption specified in section 1% of Article XIII of the Constitution of the State of California, adopted in 1911 and as amended in November, 1932. The ease was submitted on general demurrer to the petition.

The facts stated in the petition are briefly as follows: Petitioner, a single woman and a legal resident of this state, is a veteran of the World War,…