People v. Campbell
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the Fourth Judicial District. The relator filed his petition and affidavit in the District Court, praying an alternative mandate to the respondents, (the former being county judge, and the latter county clerk of the county of San Francisco,) requiring them to grant to the relator the certificate of his election as one of the associate justices of the Court of Sessions, pursuant to the 64th section of the act concerning courts of justice.
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Appeal from the Fourth Judicial District. The relator filed his petition and affidavit in the District Court, praying an alternative mandate to the respondents, (the former being county judge, and the latter county clerk of the county of San Francisco,) requiring them to grant to the relator the certificate of his election as one of the associate justices of the Court of Sessions, pursuant to the 64th section of the act concerning courts of justice. The Court awarded the writ; which recited the petition, and directed the respondents to give the certificate, or show cause, &c. The respondents…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Murray
This was an application to the Court below for a mandamus, to compel *136Alexander Campbell, Judge, and John E. Addison, clerk of the county of San Francisco, to certify the election of the relator as associate justice of the Court of Sessions.
The 64th section of the “Act concerning courts of justice,” reads as follows: “ The associate justices of the Court of Sessions shall be chosen by the justices of the peace of the county. The county judge shall convene at the county seat on the first Monday of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and on the first Monday of October…
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