People ex rel. Gould v. Commissioners of Excise

A writ of prohibition is a preventive remedy, not a corrective one. It can only be used to prevent the doing of an act about to be done, not as a remedy for acts already completed (United States agt. Hoffman, 4 Wallace, 158; High *515on Remedies, 542). I do not think that section 2100 of the Code was intended to alter in this respect the common law rule. • The provisions there contained—that the tribunal proceeded against may be directed to annul or vacate proceedings theretofore taken in the matter—applies only to interlocutory or mesne proceedings prior to the final decision. I think the…