Higgins

Petition for a writ of mandate. Petitioner is the defendant owner in a consolidated mechanics’ lien foreclosure proceeding brought by the Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company et al., against petitioner and Alpeter, Hall & Alpeter, contractors, in the superior court of Los Angeles county.

The findings in that ease recite that at the commencement of the trial in said proceeding petitioner “deposited in court the sum of $18,617.99 to abide the judgment of the court in these causes and to be applied in satisfaction of such judgment as the .court may direct.” Judgment was rendered in favor of said contractors against petitioner for the sum of $15,993.24 with interest; for personal judgments in various sums in favor of several of the lien claimants against the contractors ; for liens in favor of two of said claimants against the property of petitioner to secure the payment of their claims; and in favor of petitioner against both the lien and • claim of one of the claimants. The judgment directs the clerk to pay from the $18,617.99 deposited by petitioner the attorneys’ fees of the two claimants whose liens were declared valid, and to distribute and apply the $15,993.24 awarded to the…