Amos v. Superior Court

This is an application for a peremptory writ of prohibition to restrain the respondent court and the judges thereof from proceeding with the trial of an action pending in said court before a jury to be selected from a special venire which was drawn for the purpose of the trial of that action. The pending action is one to recover damages for personal injuries growing out of a street-car accident. The ease haying been regularly set down for trial before a jury, the presiding judge made an order directing the clerk of the court to issue and deliver to the sheriff a writ for a jury venire from…