Lawrence v. City of Los Angeles

From a judgment in favor of respondents after the trial court entered a judgment denying petitioner’s application for a writ of mandate requiring respondents to make an order allowing her a pension because of the death of her husband, a police officer of defendant city, petitioner appeals.

The essential facts are:

November 1, 1939, at approximately 5 :30 p. m. petitioner’s husband, a police officer of the city of Los Angeles, left the central police station in a Ford automobile owned by defendant city apparently en route home. At approximately 6:10 p. m. of the same day while driving in an…