Boys' & Girls' Aid Society v. Reis
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco. The proceeding was for a writ of mandate to compel the defendant, as treasurer of the city and county of San Francisco, to pay to the petitioner out of the city and county treasury the sum of $1,275, being the amount called for ‘by fifty-one several orders of the Police Judge’s Court of the city and county, issued in favor of the petitioner at divers times between the 25th of July, 1883,…
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Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco. The proceeding was for a writ of mandate to compel the defendant, as treasurer of the city and county of San Francisco, to pay to the petitioner out of the city and county treasury the sum of $1,275, being the amount called for ‘by fifty-one several orders of the Police Judge’s Court of the city and county, issued in favor of the petitioner at divers times between the 25th of July, 1883, and August 3, 1884, in pursuance -of the authority conferred by section 1388 of the Penal Code. The furthur facts are…
1Opinion of the Court
Foote, C.
This is an appeal from a judgment ordering a peremptory writ of mandate to issue commanding the defendant, treasurer, etc., forthwith to pay out of the treasury of the city and county of San Francisco certain sums of money.
The defendant urges that the statute enacted by the legislature, dated the fifteenth day of March, 1883, adding a new section to the Penal Code, to be known as section 1388, is unconstitutional. The said act is to be found in the statutes of 1883, page 377.
He also contends that the statute in question does not contemplate that the treasurer of said city and county…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Argenti v. City of San FranciscoCalifornia Supreme Court · 1860
- City of Oakland v. CarpentierCalifornia Supreme Court · 1859
- Richardson v. HeydenfeldtCalifornia Supreme Court · 1873
- Wallace v. Mayor of San JoseCalifornia Supreme Court · 1865
- In re Lee TongDistrict Court, D. Oregon · 1883
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