Slye

This is an application for a writ of mandate, directed to the judge of the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco, requiring him to proceed to settle the bill of exceptions and statement in the case of Julia A. Roberts et al. v. Joseph Slye et al., No. 52,138, now pending in said court.

The facts of the case as they appear from the petition are briefly these: The said action of Roberts et al. v. Slye et al. was commenced in said court at some time during the year 1913, and came on for trial in the month of December of that year, at which trial a verdict was rendered in plaintiffs’ favor on December 18, 1913, for the sum of four thousand five hundred dollars, upon which verdict judgment was entered in due course; that notice of intention to move for a new trial was duly given, and that within sixty days after said judgment an appeal therefrom was perfected to the supreme court. Thereafter, within the time allowed by law and the stipulations of counsel, defendants prepared and served a proposed bill of exceptions, embracing a statement of the ease, consisting of 172 typewritten pages, to which the plaintiffs in due course prepared and served their proposed…