McMahon v. Superior Court

Petitioner seeks a writ of mandate to compel respondents to “settle and certify” the clerk’s and reporter’s transcripts on an appeal taken from a judgment entered in determination of the final account of the former special administrator in an estate proceeding. The mandamus petition was consolidated for oral argument with a motion to dismiss several appeals in this estate proceeding pending in this court. (Estate of Merrill, post, page 520 [175 P.2d 819].)

Petitioner premises his application for relief on these facts of record herein: On April 17, 1944, one Fred B. Merrill was appointed…