People Ex Rel. Winbourn v. District Court Eighth District

I am unable to agree with the conclusion that a peremptory writ of prohibition should issue. District courts are constitutional courts of general jurisdiction. They possess full power, and exercise it daily, to pass upon demurrers and answers raising the question of the jurisdiction of the court. Their rulings thereon are reviewed by this court on writ of error. To justify this court in departing from the regular course and, by the extraordinary writ of prohibition, preventing a trial court from proceeding in a case pending before it, the case and the occasion should be extraordinary. The…