Clarke

This action was brought for the purpose of forcing, by writ of mandate, the respondent to pay the appellant, who was the assignee of a claim of a dismissed police-officer, one Pugh, the amount of $256 principal, and costs and damages to the amount of $25.

This sum of money was claimed under and by virtue of an act of the legislature approved April 1, 1878. (Stats. 1878, p. 879.)

It is asserted that the two dollars per month which the police-officer claims to have paid into the fund held by the treasurer was money in which he had a vested *544 right, and that on his discharge he was entitled to have it returned to him or his representative.

The petition was demurred to as not stating facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action; the demurrer was sustained, and the writ dismissed. From the judgment rendered in the premises this appeal is taken.

The statute under which this right is set up by the plaintiff has received construction from the appellate court of this state in Pennie v. Reis, 80 Cal. 269 , and from the supreme court of the United States in the same case on writ of error. ( 132 U. S. 471 .) These cases hold that a police-officer, such' as the assignor of the…