On February 7, 1962 — Attorney Melvin Belli obtained a court writ yesterday laying claim to a piece of Willie Mays, baseball’s highest-paid player unless the San Fran¬cisco Giants pay up a judgment of $1,880.96.

Belli won the judgment on Jan. 23 from a municipal court jury which ordered that the baseball club repay him the $1,597 he paid for a 1960 season box at Candlestick Park.

BELLI CLAIMED the Candlestick box was too cold for him to use the tickets. He said an advertised radiant heating system had failed to work.
Belli said he asked for the writ of execution yesterday because the baseball club’s attorneys failed to file a motion for a new trial be¬fore a legal deadline.
Sheriff Matthew C. Car- berry’s office said the writ of execution issued by James Cannon municipal clerk, would be served first at the Giant offices at Candlestick Park.

At the top of the Giant properties which Belli listed for attachment was:
“Willie Mays, a prime as¬set of the San Francisco Giants.” He also asked attach¬ment of bats, balls, gloves, uniforms, and bar whisky at the Giants’ Candlestick headquarters. The Giants later posted a bond for $3,780. double the amount of the judgment and court costs, and won a stay of execution pending an ap¬peal of the original judg¬ment.