47 Wash. 154 | Wash. | 1907
Original application was made to this court for a writ of prohibition, directed to the superior court of Mason county. The application shows that, in a certain cause now pending in said court, the relator is defendant, and that an order granting a temporary injunction against him was entered therein; that the action is one for the cancellation of a contract and for an accounting between the parties; that it is a transitory and not a local action, and is properly triablein Pierce county, where the relator herein, who is sole defendant in that action, resides; that within the time prescribed
Relator’s contention is that the trial court of Mason county is without jurisdiction for the reason that the action is transitory, and has been commenced in the wrong county; that is to say, in a county where the sole defendant does not reside, timely objection to the jurisdiction having been made and not subsequently waived: He therefore contends that, by reason of the absence of jurisdiction, this court should now prohibit the trial court from proceeding with the trial. The later decisions of this court are against relator’s contention. In State ex rel. Miller v. Superior Court, 40 Wash. 555, 82 Pac. 875, it was held that prohibition does not lie to prevent the trial court from proceeding to try a cause, even if the court is without jurisdiction by reason of the erroneous denial of an application for a change of venue, for the reason that there is an adequate remedy by appeal, which is the test to be applied upon all applications for extraordinary writs. It was also held that the delay and expense incident to an appeal do not affect the adequacy of the remedy. See, also, State ex rel. Port Orchard Investment Co. v. Superior Court, 31 Wash. 410, 71 Pac. 1100.
The writ of prohibition is denied.
Rudkin, Chow, and Mount, JJ., concur.