Maidenberg

Upon the application of plaintiff as petitioner, the superior court of Los Angeles County issued a writ of certiorari directed to Edward Judson Brown, justice of the peace of Los Angeles Township, pursuant to which said justice of the peace certified and transmitted to said court for review, a transcript of its proceedings, including papers and docket entries, in a certain case, wherein petitioner was plaintiff and Roseoe E. Knight was defendant. Upon an examination of such record had at the hearing, the court made an order in effect dismissing the proceeding. On appeal therefrom, petitioner presents a transcript, certified by the clerk of the superior court, containing copies of the papers, docket entries, and proceedings of the justice’s court in said action. From this document it appears that upon the trial of the case in question being closed on February 5, 1915, defendant was instructed to fils an amended answer; that on March 12th defendant filed an answer, admitting the claim of plaintiff in the sum of $201.66, and by way of counterclaim alleged there was due from plaintiff to him the sum of six hundred dollars, leaving a balance of some $398 due defendant from plaintiff;…