General Electric Co. v. Superior Court

— This proceeding in prohibition was commenced by the General Electric Company to prevent the enforcement by the respondent superior court of its order requiring the petitioner to produce certain of its books and records for inspection by the real party in interest, the Affiliated Government Employees Distributing Company, Inc. The order was made pursuant to discovery procedures (Code Civ. Proc., § 1000) in an action by the petitioner for an injunction under the Fair Trade Act of 1931 as amended in 1933 and 1941 (Bus. & Prof. Code, §§ 16900-16905) to enjoin the retail sale of its products by…