Styring v. City of Santa Ana

This is an appeal from a judgment directing the issuance of a writ of mandate requiring defendants to grant plaintiffs and other regular members of the regularly organized paid Fire Department of the City of Santa Ana leaves “of absence from active duty of four working shifts in every month of such service” as required by an act of the Legislature. (Stats. 1895, p. 76, as amended; Deering’s Gen. Laws, 1937, Act 2598.)

The city of Santa Ana is a municipal corporation of the fifth class organized under the Municipal Corporation Act. (Stats. 1883, p. 93, as variously amended; Deering’s Gen. Laws,…