Richardson v. Superior Court

Petition for a writ of -mandate to compel the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Los Angeles, and J. Walter Hanby, Judge of said court, to order L. E. Lampton, county clerk of Los Angeles County, to issue a writ of assistance directed to the sheriff of Los Angeles County to let petitioner into the possession of certain real property sold under á foreclosure sale and conveyed to the petitioner by sheriff’s deed, and to compel L. E. Lampton, clerk of said court, to issue such writ.

It appears from the amended petition that in June, 1925, Grace E. Jones, then being the wife of Frank Jones, brought action in the Superior Court, in and for the County of Los Angeles, seeking a partition of the real property, which is the subject of this proceeding, and which the said Grace E. Jones alleged was owned by herself and her husband, Frank Jones, as joint tenants. In addition, the plaintiff asked for an accounting of the rents collected by her husband, Frank Jones, from the joint property. Earl L. Jones, son of Frank Jones, was joined with his father as defendant, it being alleged that he was the holder of two mortgages which were liens upon the…