Housing Authority v. City of Los Angeles

[40 Cal2d Page 683] The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, by petition filed on August 4, 1952, seeks to have the members of the City Council of the City of Los Angeles held in contempt of this court for their alleged failure to comply with the terms of a peremptory writ of mandate issued [40 Cal2d Page 684] by this court on June 27, 1952. (Housing Authority v. City of Los Angeles, 38 Cal. 2d 853 [243 P.2d 515], certiorari denied, 344 U.S. 836 [73 S.Ct. 46, 97 L.Ed. 41].) That proceeding will be referred to in this opinion as the mandate proceeding.