Burge

Prohibition. Petitioners seek to prevent the respondent Municipal Court of the City of Los Angeles from proceeding further in an action pending in said court, in which action respondent Dietterich is the plaintiff and petitioners herein are the defendants.

Other than that the action was brought in the Municipal Court of the City of Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles, the facts material to this decision are that each of the defendants is a resident of the city of South Pasadena, in the county of Los Angeles, and that the amount involved in the action is the sum of eight hundred dollars.

As related to the constitution of the state of California, petitioners attack generally the constitutionality of the statute under which the action was brought (Stats. 1925, p. 648), and cite many authorities in support of their contention. In view of the fact, however, that since each of the cases to which the attention of this court is directed was decided, by appropriate amendments to the constitution of this state, the constitution was specifically amended for the very purpose of providing for the creation of municipal courts, and that the statute in question was enacted by the…