Nelson v. Superior Court

This is an application for a writ of prohibition restraining the respondent court, its officers and agents, from taking further steps in a divorce action until such time as jurisdiction over the person of the petitioner is obtained.

The action in question was brought on May 9, 1946, in Riverside County. Among other things, the complaint alleged that this petitioner was then outside of the State of California; that he intended to and would continue to so remain for the purpose of defeating and evading the orders and process of the court; that he had separate property within this state consisting of a half interest in certain United States bonds with a maturity value of $35,000; that his interest therein was the sum of $17,500; that he had previously filed an action for divorce in St. Louis, Missouri, containing numerous false allegations with respect to the plaintiff; that he had also filed two actions against the plaintiff in the federal court at Los Angeles, one upon an unfounded cause of action and the other seeking to deprive the plaintiff of any interest in the bonds above referred to; that these actions were filed in an attempt to wrongfully deprive the…