Stearns v. Superior Court

Respondent has interposed a general demurrer to a petition upon which this court issued an alternative writ of mandate addressed to the superior court of Los Angeles County commanding it, in the absence of cause to the contrary being shown, to incorporate in a judgment, which the court is about to render in favor of plaintiff upon findings made in an action wherein Madeline E. Stearns is plaintiff and Howard E. Reach is defendant, a clause to the effect that said defendant be committed to the county jail until he pays to plaintiff the sum of $1,052.39, so found by the court to be due to her.

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