Wilmurth v. First Judicial District Court

OPINION

By the Court,

Badt, C. J.:

The petition for a writ of mandate now before the court raises 1 the following question: Will the remedy of mandamus lie to compel the respondent court to vacate a pre-trial order made by it, on the ground that petitioners had not participated in the pre-trial conference— such failure to participate being the willful absence of petitioners from the pre-trial conference after due notice thereof. (Counsel for petitioners herein, as counsel for plaintiffs in the main action then pending in the respondent court, had willfully absented themselves from the pre-trial…