Bonner v. Superior Court

Opinion

POTTER, J.

Petitioner, Ethel Lee Bonner, seeks a peremptory writ of mandate to require respondent superior court to vacate its order denying petitioner’s claim of an exemption from execution for real property upon which a declaration of homestead was filed December 15, 1967. At the time the declaration was filed, the property (title to which was in joint tenancy) was the community property of petitioner and real party in interest James Bonner, who were then husband and wife, and the declaration was filed jointly by them. On April 18, 1973, 1 respondent court rendered its interlocutory…