Carr v. Superior Court

81 P. 515, 147 Cal. 227, 1905 Cal. LEXIS 384

• Court: California Supreme Court
• Decided: June 21, 1905
• Docket: S.F. No. 4338.
• Status: Published

Opinion

THE COURT.

This is a petition for a writ of prohibition to restrain the superior court of Monterey County from further proceeding in a suit for partition of lands, of which it is contended that court has no jurisdiction. It appears from the petition that there has been a hearing and submission of the cause and that the judge has directed counsel for the plaintiff to draw findings and the form of an interlocutory decree.

An appeal from such decree, when entered, will afford the defendant in the action—petitioner here—a plain, speedy, and adequate remedy for any injury it may occasion, and for that reason the writ of prohibition should be denied. If it was clear that the court was proceeding in excess of its jurisdiction, and that a trial involving great expense was yet to be gone through, it might be proper to grant the writ in order to save the parties the useless expense, but here all the expense of the trial has already been incurred, and to review the error and correct the excess of jurisdiction, if any there has been, an appeal is just as plain, speedy, adequate, and effective as prohibition.

Writ denied.