Dribin v. Superior Court

Petitioner seeks by mandamus1 to require the Superior Court in the County of Los Angeles to restore to the trial calendar, and proceed with the trial of, a divorce suit brought by him on the ground of incurable insanity (Civ. Code, §§ 92, 1082). It appears from the allegations of the *347mandamus petition that petitioner is unable to satisfy certain of the statutory prerequisites to the granting of a divorce on that ground, and that if such prerequisites are constitutionally valid the relief he seeks should be denied.

Petitioner alleges in his mandamus petition that in October, 1949, he filed…