Williams v. Superior Court (1939) 14 Cal.2d 656, involved a court reporter. The petitioner took an appeal from an adverse judgment and came to an agreement with the court reporter to provide the record for her case to the Court of Appeal. When the reporter did not do so, the petitioner brought the matter to the attention of the presiding judge of the superior court. The presiding judge, after investigating the matter, directed that the issue be handled by the judge of the order to show cause department (department 34). (Id. at p. 660.) After he was admonished for contempt for failure to comply with an order issued by department 34, the court reporter filed an ex parte motion in department 12, seeking an order to extend the time to file the transcript under different contractual terms. Department 12 issued an order declaring the order of department 34 void, among other things. (Ibid.) Under these circumstances, the Williams court declared "where a proceeding has been duly assigned for hearing and determination to one department of the superior court by the presiding judge of said court in conformity with the rules thereof, and the proceeding so assigned has not been finally disposed of therein or legally removed therefrom, it is beyond the jurisdictional authority of another department of the same court to interfere with the exercise of the power of the department to which the proceeding has been so assigned. ." (Id. at p. 662.)