POCKMAN v. LEONARD

Docket No. S.F. 18349.

39 Cal.2d 676 (1952)

249 P.2d 267

LEONARD T. POCKMAN, Petitioner, v. J. PAUL LEONARD, as President of San Francisco State College et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 17, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne M. Collins for Petitioner.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, H.H. Linney, Chief Assistant Attorney General, and Herbert E. Wenig, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondents.


GIBSON, C.J.

This is an original proceeding in mandamus brought by an associate professor at San Francisco State College to compel respondents to certify his name on the public payroll and to pay him salary which was withheld because of his failure to execute the oath required by sections 3100-3109 of the Government Code, known commonly as the Levering Act. (Stats. 1951 [3d Ex. Sess. 1950, ch. 7], p. 15.)

The statute declares that all public employees are...

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