Gates

In this matter petitioners seek to prohibit the superior court from proceeding with the trial of an action in which the petitioners are defendants and one I. Maurice Wormser, as receiver, and Bessie E. Arnold are plaintiffs.

It appears that in a suit for divorce pending in the Supreme Court of the state of New York, in which the said Bessie E. Arnold is the plaintiff and her husband Ray H. Arnold is the defendant, the said court made its order by which the said defendant was ordered to make monthly payments to the said plaintiff of a certain sum of money pending the determination of the said action; that thereafter, on the failure of the said defendant to make one of such monthly payments to the said plaintiff, the said court made its order by which the said I. Maurice Wormser was appointed receiver in sequestration of all the personal property of the said defendant for the purpose of making the said several monthly payments theretofore ordered to be made by him to the said plaintiff in the action pending its determination. It also appears that the said defendant, who is now a resident of this state, is the owner of certain shares of stock in each of the corporations which are…