Hawley v. Clark

Petitioner seeks an alternative writ of .prohibition commanding the Real Estate Commissioner of the State of California to refrain from proceeding against the petitioner under certain sections of the California Real Estate Act. In the late case of Standard Oil Co. v. State Board of Equalization, 6 Cal. (2d) 557 [59 Pac. (2d) 119], it was held that a writ of review will lie only to review the exercise of judicial functions and that the legislature is without power to confer judicial functions upon a state-wide administrative agency. The judgment denying relief to petitioner in that case was…