National Automobile & Casualty Insurance v. Garrison

From a judgment discharging an alternative writ of mandate and denying a peremptory writ requiring defendant to issue certain subpoenas duces tecum, petitioner appeals.

The essential facts are these:

Petitioner was an insurance corporation duly authorized by certificate issued by the respondent to transact certain classes of insurance business in this state. Respondent had ordered petitioner to appear before him to show cause why its certificate of authority to transact business should not be revoked.

During the course of the hearing petitioner, on September 6,1945, made written request upon…