Severns Drilling Co. v. Superior Court

THE COURT.

This is an application for a writ of prohibition to restrain the respondent court from enforcing its order authorizing an inspection and survey of an oil well owned and operated by petitioner.

An examination of the record before us discloses that the trial court had jurisdiction to authorize and require the survey of petitioner’s oil well. (Union Oil Co. of California v. Reconstruction Oil Co et al., 4 Cal. (2d) 541 [51 Pac. (2d) 81].)

Therefore, since the trial court had jurisdiction to make and enter its order, the writ of prohibition must be denied. *282The rule is well settled that…