Loftis v. Superior Court

This is an application for a writ of prohibition to restrain further proceedings in a divorce action now pending before the respondent superior court, upon the ground that it has no jurisdiction to proceed therein because of a prior pending action between the same parties, involving the same cause, before the Superior Court of Los Angeles County.

Two actions for divorce are pending between the petitioner and his wife; both were instituted by the latter; both involve the same cause; the first thereof was commenced in Los Angeles County by the filing of a complaint on June 12, 1961, and, after…