Weiman v. Superior Court

Petitioners, Theodore E. Weiman and Cecelia Weiman, seek a writ of prohibition to prohibit the respondent court from taking any “further steps to enforce its order for arbitration” under a construction contract, and also a writ of mandate to compel the respondent court to order a “summary trial to be set on the jury trial calendar.” The “order *712for arbitration” had been made by the trial court on July 9, 1958, following the hearing of a petition filed by John A. Nelson, Incorporated, under the provisions of section 1282 of the Code of Civil Procedure.1

Petitioners contend that they were…