Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp. v. Superior Court

Petitioner Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation, hereafter referred to as Baldwin, seeks a writ of prohibition restraining the respondent superior court from taking further action in a mandamus proceeding pending therein, except such as may be necessary to deny a peremptory writ of mandate, discharge the alternative writ issued, and dissolve an injunction pendente lite.

The following background facts appear to he generally undisputed. On July 6, 1961, the purchasing department of the City and County of San Francisco, acting under the direction of Ben Benas, purchaser of supplies of said city,…