Tiffany Productions of California, Inc. v. Superior Court

Prom the record herein it appears that at a time some months preceding' the date of the application to this court for the issuance of a writ of prohibition, by means of which the respective rights of the parties regarding the issues here involved are proposed to be tested, the petitioners brought an action in the superior court against James Craze Productions, Inc., and James Craze; and as incidental to such action, caused a writ of attachment to issue by authority of which certain personal prop erty belonging to defendants in that action was seized and held as security for the payment of any judgment which thereafter might be rendered in the action in favor of the plaintiff. As a statutory prerequisite to the issuance of the writ of attachment, by direction of the clerk of the court the plaintiff in the action was required to, and did, furnish an undertaking in the sum of $7,500. Thereafter, by motion presented- to the superior court, the defendants sought to have the amount of that undertaking substantially increased. By order of the court that motion was denied. On a so-called “re-hearing” of said matter, its former order by which an increase in the amount of the undertaking…