Corcoran v. City of Los Angeles

This is an appeal from an order “denying plaintiff’s motion for leave to renew motion to vacate judgment . . . and from the order of the court on the same.”

Appellant is not an attorney at law and is attempting to represent himself, and being unfamiliar with the law and the writing of briefs, there are, as a consequence thereof, many pages of matter in the briefs which are wholly out of place and incompetent in this proceeding.

In September of 1954, the plaintiff filed a proceeding in mandamus to compel the city of Los Angeles to reinstate him to a position from which he had been discharged on…