Paddon

This is a proceeding to review and annul an order of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco directing the issuance of a warrant of attachment to answer for contempt in disobedience of a subpoena duly served.

Petitioner, together with several corporations, is defendant in two actions brought by his wife, Una Margaret Locke Paddon, to secure a divorce from him; also to set aside a certain property settlement agreement between the parties, and also to set aside certain alleged transfers of property to other defendants. Other defendants named are principally corporations of which, it is alleged, petitioner is the alter ego.

Petitioner alleges that he is a resident of Santa Cruz County, more than fifty miles distant from San Francisco; that on May 11, 1923, respondent judge, on affidavit of the attorney for plaintiff in said action, issued an order for the taking of the deposition of petitioner before himself at 4 o’clock P. M., May 21, 1923, and directing the clerk of the court to issue a subpoena commanding petitioner to appear before respondent court and testify in said action, and also requiring petitioner to produce books, records, etc., of said defendant…