Danford v. Superior Court

Petitioner seeks a writ of prohibition to restrain the superior court from entertaining proceedings instituted. against petitioner charging him with contempt of court. The affidavit upon which the contempt proceedings are based alleges that on March 1, 1909, petitioner, who theretofore had been an attorney licensed to practice law, was disbarred from practice in all courts of the state by an order of the superior court in Los Angeles County in accord with proceedings duly instituted for that purpose. About three and a half years thereafter the judge who had made the order of disbarment,…