McCarthy v. Superior Court

Petitioner has applied for a writ of prohibition to prohibit the superior court, sitting in probate, from enforcing by execution or contempt proceedings an order made in a proceeding instituted therein under the provisions of sections 613, 614 and 615 of the Probate Code, in the matter of the Estate of Allie C. M. Osborne, deceased.

The facts are as follows: For many years immediately preceding Mrs. Osborne’s death, which occurred on March 30, 1942, she conducted a real estate and insurance business on Mission Street in San Francisco under the name of Stewart & Osborne, in connection with…