Ex parte Tinkum
California Supreme Court
Application for discharge upon a writ of habeas corpus. The facts arc stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
In bank, McKee, J.:
The petitioner is imprisoned under an order of the Superior Court of Mono County, adjudging him guilty of contempt of Court for disobeying a peremptory writ of mandate issued upon a judgment rendered by the late District Court of Mono County on the 17th of November, 1879.
But the records show that the judgment was rendered in an action originally commenced by one Albert Mack against Andrew H. Allen, Treasurer of the County of Mono, for a writ of mandamus to compel the said Treasurer to pay a certain audited warrant, drawn upon the treasury of the county, out of the general…
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