Jones v. Paul

This is an application for a writ of certiorari to review an order of the superior court vacating a default judgment. The crucial question presented is whether the writ will issue to review an interlocutory order where there is an adequate but less speedy remedy by appeal. In Nelson v. Denny, 26 Wash. 327, 67 Pac. 78, the court in holding that an order vacating a judgment was not an appealable one, quoted from Freeman v. Ambrose, 12 Wash. 1, 40 Pac. 381, as follows:

“We think it against the policy of the law to give the act *356a construction that would multiply appeals and permit litigants to…