Bishop

This is a petition for a writ of prohibition to restrain the superior court of the county of Los Angeles, McKinley, judge, from further proceedings against the petitioner in a certain action pending in that court, wherein the city of Pasadena is plaintiff, and the petitioner herein, and several other persons, including the county of Los Angeles, are defendants, brbught for the purpose of acquiring, by condemnation, a right of way for a sewer along and in certain of the county roads of said county of Los Angeles.

The city of Pasadena is a municipal corporation of the sixth class, organized and existing under the provisions of chapter 7 of the act of the legislature, entitled "An act to provide for the organization, incorporation, and government of municipal corporations,” approved March 13, 1883. For the purpose of providing drainage for the city, and protecting the health of the inhabitants thereof, she has devised and adopted a system of sewerage, and secured a considerable tract of land situate outside of and a considerable distance from the corporation as a place for the discharge of the sewerage of the city, called the " sewer farm,” and has commenced the construction of a…