Chambers

This is an application for a writ of mandate to secure the payment of a claim for the support of a minor orphan.

After setting forth that, from the first day of July, 1913, to the twenty-second day of May, 1914, the Sacramento Orphanage and Farm Association was a corporation, and an institution conducted for the support and maintenance of minor orphans, half-orphans and abandoned children, and that during the same period the Sacramento Children’s Home was a like institution and conducted for like purposes, and that, on said May 22d, the said organizations duly consolidated and became vested with all the rights, duties, and powers of said component associations and succeeded to and became vested with all the property thereof, the petition proceeds: “That for a period of six months immediately prior to the 31st day of December, 1913, that is to say, from the 1st day of July, 1913, to the 31st day of December, 1913, Sacramento Orphanage & Farm Association did have in its care custody and control one Domeñe Juryvich, a minor half-orphan under the age of fourteen years, to wit, of the age of seven years or thereabouts; that the parents of said minor half-orphan were aliens and had…