People ex rel. Wright v. County Judge
California Supreme Court
Petition for writ of prohibition. This was an original proceeding commenced in the Supreme Court to obtain a writ of prohibition, to prevent the County Judge of Placer County from proceeding to try and punish for contempt the relators, who were charged for violating an injunction issued out of the District Court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Shafter, J.
This is a petition for a writ of prohibition. The petition represents that on the 15th day of June, 1864, Griffith Griffith exhibited his bill of complaint in the District Court of the Fourteenth Judicial District, against J. P. Robinson and others, and in said action prayed for the issuance of a writ of injunction. That after the filing of the bill in the District Court, Griffith made an ex parte application to the defendant, County Judge, etc., for the writ, to' be issued out of the said District Court, and that it was thereafter so issued by the order of said…
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