Govea v. Superior Court

This cause is before us upon the application of the above-named petitioner for a writ of prohibition enjoining and restraining the respondent from proceeding with the trial of a certain action numbered 9685, pending in said court, wherein B. B. Tatum, Ethel Tatum and Darwin Tatum, by his guardian ad litem, B. B. Tatum, are plaintiffs, and Manuel Govea is defendant, on the grounds that the defendant’s motion in said action to dismiss for want of prosecution should have been granted.

The record shows that the complaint in the action just named was filed on the 9th day of November, 1932; that the…