Reidy v. Superior Court of L.A. Cty.

By this proceeding petitioners seek to prohibit the respondent court from proceeding to the trial of an action pending therein entitled Bank of America National Trust & Savings Assn. v. Reidy et al. Petitioners contend that the issues involved in said action already have been tried and determined in a prior action between the same persons who are parties to the second action. In other words, petitioners contend that, as the judgment in the prior action is a bar to the second action, the trial court has no jurisdiction to proceed with the trial of the second action. In this contention the…