Shell Oil Co. v. Superior Court

The petition for writ of prohibition is denied and the alternative writ is discharged.

One reasoning, briefly, is: First, that we are concerned here necessarily with questions of jurisdiction only and not with defects in pleadings, nor with difficulties, even if well nigh insuperable, which may be encountered in proving the facts necessary to a recovery.

The action in the court below is by the wife and minor children of one Joseph C. "Wheeler, to recover from the petitioner herein actual and exemplary damages growing out of the loss of support by reason of the addiction on the part of said…