Mathis v. Superior Court of City & County of San Francisco

This is a petition in mandamus to require respondents to dismiss an appeal from a judgment rendered by the justice’s court. On the twenty-first day of June, 1920, petitioner herein, as plaintiff, recovered a judgment against Belle Dennett and John C. Oreutt in the justice’s court in the city and county of San Francisco on an assigned claim for taxi hire in the sum of $187.75. On the twenty-fifth day of the same month counsel for defendants filed in the justice’s court a notice of appeal on behalf of both defendants. On the 29th of June there was filed what purported- to be an undertaking on…