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In the superior court, in an action entitled The People upon the relation of W. H. H. Hart, Attorney General, v. Bankers and Merchants’ Mutual Life Association of the United States et. al., numbered on the register of said court 32100, the court made an order appointing one A. G-. Booth receiver; and this present proceeding is an original petition here for a writ of prohibition,. commanding the said superior court, substantially, to refrain from taking any further proceeding with respect to said receiver, upon the ground that the said court had no jurisdiction to appoint a receiver in said action. An answer was filed by the respondent here, and, upon a stipulation as to the facts, the case was submitted.

Prior to said action numbered 32100, another action, numbered 30718, had been commenced by the attorney general in the name of The People against said Bankers and Merchants’ Mutual Life Association, in the complaint in which, said action it was averred that said association was a corporation duly organized under the laws of the state of California, having for its objects, as set forth in its articles of incorporation, the following: “ To associate together for the purpose of…