Quatman

By this proceeding petitioners seek a writ of prohibition restraining respondent, Honorable Claude F. Purkitt, from further proeeding in a certain action heretofore begun and now pending in Glenn County, entitled H. J. Barceloux, Plaintiff, v. Sacramento Valley Realty Company, a Corporation, Respondent (action No. 3454), on the alleged grounds that the respondent was at the time of the beginning of the said action and ever since has been and now is disqualified to act therein.

It appears from the petition that on or about the eleventh day of April, 1923, an action was begun by the said Barceloux against the Sacramento Valley Realty Company, a corporation, praying for the appointment of a receiver and for other appropriate relief. That at the time of the filing of the complaint by the said Barceloux the respondent made an order to show cause returnable on the twenty-first day of April, 1923, directed to defendant, Sacramento Valley Realty Company, commanding it to be and appear on said twenty-first day of April, 1923, to show cause why a receiver should not be appointed and at the same time issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting the Sacramento Valley Realty Company from…