Bottoms

— This is an application for a writ of certiorari. From the petition for the writ it appears that an action was commenced in the respondent court on the 30th of December, 1926, by the Southern California Edison Company against the petitioner and others for the purpose of condemning certain water rights of the latter; that the Honorable Raymond W. Williamson, an attorney at law in the city of San Francisco, was retained by petitioner to appear in and defend said action for petitioner; that said Williamson, at the general election held throughout the state on the fifth day of November, 1926, was duly elected as a member of the assembly of the legislature of the state of California, to be convened, and which did convene, at the city of Sacramento in its regular biennial session on the first Monday after the first day of January, 1927; that, on March 14, 1927, while the legislature was in session, and. said Williamson was then in attendance at said session and then actually engaged in the performance of his duties as a member thereof and still was the regularly retained attorney for the petitioner in the action above named, the latter applied to the respondent court for an extension…