Superior Mortgage Co. v. Division of Real Estate

Petitioners, Superior Mortgage Company, a corporation, Robert M. Calhoun and Harry J. Calhoun, appeal from the judgment in favor of the respondents, Division of Real Estate of California, and D. D. Watson, Commissioner of said division, for whom his successor in office, F. W. Greisinger, has been substituted.

*784 The judgment from which petitioners have appealed discharges the alternative writ theretofore issued to them and denies their petition for a peremptory writ of mandate requiring defendants “to restore to petitioners the license to carry on their business as Real Estate Brokers, and to dismiss the proceedings now pending and in which an order suspending petitioners’ licenses was made.”

The alternative writ required defendants to cancel their order of revocation or to show cause “why you have not done so, and why a peremptory writ of mandate should not forthwith issue.” It was followed by defendants’ “Return by Way of Answer” admitting that copies of the complaint, findings, conclusions and judgment in the municipal court case Number 205365, entitled Haygood v. Calhoun, attached to the petition as exhibits are true and correct copies, denying many allegations of the…