Newsom v. Superior Court

This court heretofore issued a peremptory writ of prohibition and announced that this written opinion would follow.

The respondent judge was designated to hear a pre-trial conference on January 11, 1967. During this hearing there was admitted in evidence a note and mortgage and other exhibits were marked for identification in support of the plaintiff’s foreclosure complaint. At the conclusion of this hearing the court made an order “setting this cause for trial * * * to the court in Division 11”.

This court under its constitutional power adopted an amendment to the Uniform Rules of Practice for…