State Ex Rel. Northwestern Electric Co v. Superior Court

(dissenting)—The statute providing for the granting of a writ of certiorari is Rem. Rev. Stat., § 1002 [P.P.C. § 15-3],

“A writ of review shall be granted by any court, except a police or justice court, when an inferior tribunal, board or officer, exercising judicial functions, has exceeded the jurisdiction of such tribunal, board or officer, or one acting illegally, or to correct any erroneous or void proceeding, or a proceeding not according to the course of the common law, and there is no appeal, nor in the judgment of the court, any plain, speedy and adequate remedy at law.”

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