Cornell v. Harris

Full title: JOHN D. CORNELL, Petitioner, v. CHARLES H. HARRIS et al., Respondents

Court: Court of Appeal of California, Fourth District

Date published: Jul 2, 1936

15 Cal.App.2d 763 (Cal. Ct. App. 1936)

59 P.2d 575

Opinion

Docket No. 1632.

July 2, 1936.

PROCEEDING in Prohibition to prohibit the giving of civil service examinations. Writ denied.

The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

Charles B. DeLong, Claude L. Chambers and Hugh Sanders for Petitioner.

Thomas Whelan, District Attorney, Frank T. Dunn, Assistant District Attorney, and Carroll H. Smith, Deputy District Attorney, for Respondents.

Everett W. Mattoon, County Counsel (Los Angeles), and Fred M. Gross, Deputy County Counsel, as Amici Curiae on Behalf of Respondents.

MARKS, J.

In this proceeding petitioner sought a writ of prohibition prohibiting respondents from giving civil service examinations under the provisions of the charter of the county of San Diego. All material questions here presented are disposed of in the opinion this day filed in the case of Cornell v. Harris, No. 1960 ( ante, p. 144 [ 59 P.2d 570].)

[1] Upon the authorities there cited and for the reasons there given the peremptory writ of prohibition is denied and the alternative and amended alternative writs are discharged.

Barnard, P.J., concurred.

Jennings, J., being absent, did not participate herein.