State Ex Rel. Dean v. Tipton Circuit Court

This is an original action for an alternative writ of mandate and prohibition against the respondent court and the judge thereof. The relators seek to expunge from the record and quash a certain contempt judgment and sentence of the respondent court, to order the granting of a change of venue from the respondent judge, and further to prohibit said respondent court from taking further action upon a certain petition for intermeddling pending in said respondent court.

The factual situation leading to the case at bar may be summarized as follows:

Relators, J. Leroy Dean and Margaret Dean, husband…