Martello v. Superior Court of California

This proceeding comes to us for decision by reason of an order made by this court granting petitioner a hearing herein after decision rendered by the district court of appeal denying petitioner’s application for a peremptory writ of prohibition.

Prior to the adoption by the people, at the general election held in this state on November 2, 1926, of the constitutional amendments proposed by the state legislature at its forty-sixth session relative to the judicial department (chap. 48, Stats. 1925, p. 1369), amending the state constitution by adding to article VI a new section, to be numbered la…