Finn

The petitioners herein, on December 9, 1924, filed in this court their application for a writ of prohibition wherein they sought to have the respondents herein, and particularly the respondent Frank I. Butler, as referee, etc., prohibited and restrained from proceeding with, passing upon, or deciding certain motions and proceedings pend ing before him as referee in a certain action then pending in the superior court in and for the county of Los Angeles, and from making, signing, or issuing a certain order which he was threatening to make, sign, and issue in connection with certain supplementary proceedings pending before him as such referee under the appointment of said court. On December 11, 1924, the said petitioners filed and presented a supplementary petition setting forth that the said referee had, on December 9, 1924, and after the filing of their said original petition, above referred to, but before any action by this court thereon, proceeded to make, sign and issue said order in said proceeding pending before him and that unless restrained by this court he and his corespondents would further proceed to enforce the same. The respondents in due course appeared and presented…