Pillsbury v. Brown

By the Court, Wallace, C. J.:

This is an appeal from the judgment of the District Court of the county of San Joaquin, awarding a writ of mandamus, by which the appellant Brown, who is the Police Judge of the city of Stockton, is directed to pay over to Pillsbury, who is the District Attorney of the county of San Joaquin, the sum of $15, in the hands of the former as such Police Judge, which sum was collected of one Wentoby, as *479part of a fine imposed upon him by the Police Court of the city, and is claimed by Pillsbury as his official, fee, to which he has, as he asserts, become entitled by…