Mines D'or De Quartz Mountain Société Anonyme v. Superior Court

Application for a writ of prohibition. The petitioners are non-residents of the state of California, and an action against them is pending in the superior court of Fresno County, in which that court made an order directing that the summons therein be served upon petitioners by publication. Thereafter the petitioners appeared specially in the action, and moved to vacate and set aside that order, upon the alleged ground that the action is in personam, and therefore not one in which summons by publication is authorized. The motion was denied. After this, petitioners again entered a special…