Sweins v. Superior Court

California Court of Appeal

Sweins v. Superior Court

60 P.2d 313, 16 Cal. App. 2d 336, 1936 Cal. App. LEXIS 279

CourtCalifornia Court of Appeal

DecidedAugust 28, 1936

DocketCiv. No. 10307

StatusPublished

Cited by3 cases

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Sweins v. Superior Court, 60 P.2d 313, 16 Cal. App. 2d 336, 1936 Cal. App. LEXIS 279 (Cal. Ct. App. 1936).

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Opinion

THE COURT.

An alternative writ of prohibition was issued upon the petitioner’s application showing that, in an action foreclosing a chattel mortgage, the respondents made an ex parte order appointing a receiver without requiring the applicants for such order to give an undertaking.

Section 566 of the Code of Civil Procedure provides that: “If a receiver is appointed upon an ex parte application, the court, before making the order, must require from the applicant an undertaking ...”

The provisions of that section are mandatory (22 Cal. Jur., p. 468) and the order was therefore void. (Westphal v. Superior Court, 120 Cal. App. 263, 264 [7 Pac. (2d) 711], where other authorities to the same effect are cited.)

Let a peremptory writ issue as prayed.

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