Burr

This is an appeal from a judgment directing the issuance of a peremptory writ of mandate, commanding the defendants, as members of the board of supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco, to approve and allow the claim and demand filed with said board by the plaintiff, for the payment by said city and county of a judgment for the recovery from said corporation of certain taxes illegally collected by it.

It is the contention of the appellants that its demurrer to the complaint upon the ground of uncertainty should have been sustained, said uncertainty consisting in the absence from said complaint, as appellants insist, of a statement of the nature of the claim and demand, the detail of which was presented to the board of supervisors. An examination of the complaint, however, shows that the pleader set forth with great circumstantiality the history and nature of his claim, and after doing so averred that “he presented his claim and demand to said board.” We think this statement sufficiently shows that it was the detailed claim and demand of the plaintiff which was before the board for its approval, and that the complaint was therefore sufficient as against either a general…