Shell Oil Co. v. Superior Court

In this proceeding for a writ of prohibition five persons, who are named as defendants in a suit for libel, seek to preclude the Superior Court of Sonoma County from trying and determining the case until the plaintiffs have first filed therein an adequate bond for costs as required by statute.

The petition alleges that ten former employees of the Shell Oil Company, who were recently discharged by that company, have consolidated their separate suits for libel under the provisions of section 378 of the Code of Civil Procedure, for the purpose of trial. Five defendants are made parties to the…