Holm v. Overholt

Application for a writ of mandate to compel the respondent sheriff of Fresno County to retain certain personal property in his possession subject to the petitioner’s lien of attachment. As a return to the alternative writ, the respondent demurred generally to the petition.

The petition alleges that on or about the twentieth day of March, 1931, the petitioner commenced an action in the Superior Court of Fresno County against the Standard Planing Mill, a corporation, and others, to recover the sum of $24,256 alleged to be due on certain promissory notes, and for attorneys’ fees, etc.; that a…