Dreher

This proceeding in certiorari has been inaugurated to review certain orders of the Superior Court of Riverside County adjudging the petitioner guilty of contempt and imposing upon him, as a penalty therefor, a fine of $300, in default of payment of which it was ordered that he be imprisoned in the county jail of Riverside County at the rate of one day’s confinement for each $2 of said fine.

The record herein shows that on February 18, 1930, a certain action was pending in the Superior Court of Riverside County in which petitioner was sued individually and as an officer of various corporations. On the aforementioned date subpoenas were issued out of the superior court ordering petitioner to appear at a designated place on February 28, 1930, then and there to give his deposition in the pending action. Subpoenas duces tecum, were likewise issued requiring petitioner to produce certain books and records of the various corporations at the time and place appointed for the taking of his deposition. The record shows that these subpoenas were served on the petitioner in Riverside County on February 19, 1930. Petitioner did not appear at the time and place designated in the subpoenas. •…