Melick v. Superior Court

This is a proceeding for a writ of prohibition. It appears from the petition upon which the alternative writ was issued that an action was commenced in respondent court by respondent Kelley against five defendants, two of whom were one J. H. Cochran and the petitioner here, J. B. Melick; that summons and complaints therein were served upon Cochran, but that no service was ever made upon petitioner, nor were any steps ever taken to procure a publication of summons as to him, nor did he ever appear in the action; that a writ of attachment issued in the action by virtue of which the sheriff…