Phillips

The petitioner asks a peremptory writ of prohibition restraining respondents from enforcing or carrying into effect an order appointing a receiver for the Stock and Realty Assurance Corporation, and also from proceeding in a matter wherein petitioner was cited to appear before respondent to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt in taking from the possession of the receiver so appointed the sum of $185.35 and for preventing said receiver from taking possession of the books and records of said corporation, of which petitioner is alleged to have been president.

The petition alleges the corporate existencé of said Stock and Realty Assurance Corporation under the laws of the state of Nevada and its authorization to do business in this state; that “for a period of one month last past petitioner has been president of said corporation” and one of its directors. That on July 25, 1930, on complaint filed against said corporation, on an ex parte application respondent court made an order appointing A. D. McLeod receiver of said corporation, which order was amended July 28, 1930, on ex parte application to said court and an order was also made directing the sheriff of Los…