Case ID: cal_138/html/0067-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "CHIPMAN, C.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[S. F. No. 3075.
    Department One.
    December 16, 1902.]
    JOHN WILSON, Appellant, v. BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF VETERANS’ HOME OF CALIFORNIA, Respondents.
    Mandamus—Necessity for Demand.—A demand before mating an application for a writ of mandamus, to perform the act sought to be enforced by the writ, is an imperative necessity in all cases other than those where the duty is of a strictly public nature, not affecting individual interests.
    Id.—Admission to Veteran’s Home, after Discharge.—An application for a mandamus to compel the admission of the plaintiff to the Veteran’s Home, after he had been discharged therefrom, for a violation of a general order, must show a previous demand for such admission and refusal to allow it. In such case, the benefit of the act which it is claimed to be performed is purely personal to the" applicant.
    
      APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Napa County. E. D. Ham, Judge.
    The facts are stated in the opinion.
    Theo. A. Bell, and Edw. S. Bell, for Appellant.
    Henry C. Gesford, for Respondents.
   CHIPMAN, C.

The judgment should be affirmed.

Gray, C., and Haynes, C., concurred.

For the reasons given in the foregoing opinion the judgment is affirmed.

Harrison, J., Van Dyke, J., Garoutte, J.