Home for the Care of Inebriates v. Kaplan

Gibson, C.

In this proceeding, the plaintiff corporation obtained a judgment awarding it a peremptory writ of mandate against the defendant, Kaplan, as clerk of the police judge's court No. 2 of the city and county of San Francisco, commanding him, as such clerk, to pay to plaintiff the sum of $455, received by him for fines and forfeitures collected in said court during June and July, 1887, from persons arrested for being drunk or under the influence of liquor. This judgment was rendered on the twenty-fifth day of October, 1887, but was not entered of record until the twenty-seventh day of…