Holt

Application for writ of prohibition.

It is made to appear by the record filed herein that in a certain action pending in the superior court .of Los Angeles county, entitled R. L. Couts, plaintiff, v. H. R. Holt, defends ant, a writ of attachment had been duly issued and levied upon certain personal property; that said superior court duly made and entered its judgment in favor of plaintiff and against defendant for $631; that thereafter, within due time, an undertaking on appeal was filed, and an additional undertaking to stay execution; that thereafter, on the twenty-ninth day of March, 1909, the plaintiff in said action duly excepted to the sufficiency of the sureties on said last-named undertaking, and the court thereupon made its order directing said sureties to appear and justify on a day fixed by the court, to wit, on the thirtieth day of March, 1909, which date was before the expiration of twenty days from the day the exception was filed, and further made its order that, unless such sureties appeared and justified, execution should issue upon said judgment.

Petitioner asks this court to prohibit the superior court from making and executing its order requiring the sureties…