Bray

This cause is before us upon the application of the petitioner praying that an order be issued by this court directed to the Superior Court of the County of Siskiyou and the Honorable Charles J. Luttrell as judge thereof, requiring him to show cause why a writ of prohibition should not be granted prohibiting said court and the judge thereof from proceeding with the hearing of a certain matter or action now pending in said court wherein the department of public works of the state of California, through the division of water rights thereof, has filed in said court its determination of the water rights of the Shasta River and its tributaries in the county of Siskiyou.

While the petition filed herein sets forth at great length a number of specifications why said order should be issued and said writ granted, only four of said specifications are set forth and urged upon our attention by the petitioner in his points and authorities accompanying the petition. These specifications are as follows:

As the petitioner’s argument is directed particularly to the provisions of section 36b, we will in the consideration of his application proceed in the same line of thought. In his attack on said…