Morrison Drilling Co., Inc. v. Superior Court

This is a petition for a writ of certiorari to review an order of the respondent superior court staying all proceedings in the trial of an action until plaintifE therein (petitioner here) has brought into the action a party alleged to be indispensable.

Petitioner brought the action in the superior court against certain members of a joint venture to recover for the value of services alleged to have been rendered on behalf of the joint venture. The defendants who had been served in the action demurred on the ground that petitioner had failed to join Batzer Oil Corporation, a Wyoming corporation,…