Brown

This is an original application to this court for a writ of mandate to compel the superior court for Los Angeles County, and the Honorable C. W. Guerin as judge thereof, to cause a formal judgment to be signed and entered in a certiorari proceeding wherein it was sought to review the action of the city council of the city of Long Beach in an annexation matter.

The application for the writ of mandate discloses the following: The petitioners here were the petitioners in the certiorari proceeding. On the day when they filed their application in the superior court for the writ of certiorari that court made an order, directed to the city council of the city of Long Beach, ordering that body to show cause why the writ of certiorari should not issue. A hearing on the order to show cause was had, the question whether the writ should issue was argued and submitted, and on May 29, 1924, the court caused an order to be entered on its minutes as follows: “Petition for Writ of Certiorari, heretofore submitted, in Department 25, Hon. C. W. G-uerin then presiding, it is now ordered that the Writ of Certiorari be and the same is hereby denied.” Thereafter petitioners, on notice duly served and…