Robinson v. Kerrigan
California Supreme Court
APPLICATION for a Writ of Mandate to the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco and to Frank H. Kerrigan, the Judge thereof. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Walter H. Robinson, and Robert T. Devlin, for Petitioner.
1Opinion of the CourtShaw, J.
This is an original proceeding in this court for a writ of mandate.
The plaintiff asks a writ to compel the defendant, as judge of the superior court, to make an order appointing a time for the hearing of a petition filed in the superior court to obtain registration of certain lands, as provided in the act of March 17, 1897, entitled “An act for the certification of land titles and the simplification of the transfer of real estate,” known as the “Torrens Law.” (Stats. 1897, p. 138.) The defendant refused to make the order, basing his refusal upon the ground that the act above mentioned is…
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