Joseph Nelson Plumbing & Heating Supply Corp. v. McCrea

The plaintiff, Joseph Nelson Plumbing & Heating Supply Corporation, commenced two separate proceedings in this court against the Hon. Wm. M. McCrea, as judge of the district court of Salt Lake county, Utah, and against the court. In the first proceeding plaintiff prayed for an alternative writ of prohibition against said court, and in the second one it prayed for an alternative writ of mandate. At the hearing in this court the two proceedings, by consent of the parties, were heard together as one proceeding, and we shall dispose of them in the same manner.

By the first proceeding plaintiff…