Highland Securities Co. v. Superior Court

This is an original proceeding instituted in this court seeking to review and annul an order of the respondent court settling an account made by respondent Curry as receiver, ordering the delivery of assets in his hands to Leonard Evans, fixing the compensation of the receiver and his attorneys, and directing the deduction of the amount of these fees from the assets in the hands of the receiver. The respondent court has not appeared herein by counsel, but, as its return, has presented certified copies of the records and files in the action in which receivership proceedings were had.

In July, 1931, R. R. Carew, one of the respondents here, filed his action in the respondent court against petitioners and a number of others seeking, among other things, judgment against certain of the defendants in the sum of $5,075.83 on a promissory note, the cancellation of a certain contract between himself and certain defendants, an accounting of the affairs of several defendant corporations, and the appointment of a receiver for the petitioners here and the Southern California Company, Limited, a corporation, to preserve their assets during the pendency of the action. On July 21, 1931, the…