Winsor Pottery Works v. Superior Court

This is an application for a writ of mandate to compel the Hon. Frank B. Ogden, one of the judges of the superior court of Alameda county, to fix the amount of an undertaking for the purpose of staying proceedings on appeal from an order ma.de by the said court and the judgé thereof, appointing a receiver in a certain proceeding pending in said court.

There is no dispute as to the facts, and in brief they are as follows: In December, 1909, one Brinkmeyer, claiming to be the owner of certain capital stock of Winsor’s California Pottery and Terra Cotta Works, a dissolved corporation, commenced an action in the said superior court against the Winsor Pottery Works, a corporation (the petitioner herein), and a number of other defendants. The object of the said action was, among other things, to have certain deeds of conveyance made by the trustees of Winsor’s California Pottery and Terra Cotta Works, a dissolved corporation, to the said Winsor Pottery Works, conveying certain real estate, set aside and canceled, and to have a receiver appointed to take charge of all the property of said dissolved corporation, witlj power in said receiver to commence actions to set aside the said…