Corcoran v. Harris

This is an original application for prohibition seeking to restrain the respondent, as Judge of the Superior Court in Alameda County, from proceeding further under an order of examination issued by him under a judgment rendered in Los Angeles County. The theory of petitioner is that the superior court of the county where the judgment has been rendered and where execution has been returned unsatisfied has sole jurisdiction to direct the judgment debtor to appear and be examined.

The proceedings were instituted under section 714 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which reads: “When an execution…