Spaulding v. Desmond

This is an original application for the issuance of a writ ofmandamus directed to Harry G. Denton, who has been regularly substituted as a defendant in the place and stead of M.J. Desmond, deceased, directing the said Denton, as clerk of the city of Sacramento, to file the oath of plaintiff as the alleged "city collector" of said city. Plaintiff bases his right to have such oath filed upon the provisions of the charter of said city known and hereinafter referred to as the "Charter of 1911" (Stats. 1911, Extra Sess., p. 305), which provided for a "city commission" in which was vested the power…