State Ex Rel. Cornwell v. District Court, Seventeenth Judicial District

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE ADAIR:

This is an original proceeding .by the State of Montana, on the relation of A. E. Cornwell, for a writ of supervisory control against the District Court of the Seventeenth Judicial District in and for the county of Valley and the Honorable R. M. Hattersley, district judge sitting in the place of the Honorable John M. Hurly, disqualified.

It appears from the petition for the writ that on February 7, 1948, the relator A. E. Cornwell, as plaintiff, filed in the respondent district court, a complaint containing two separate causes of action seeking to recover damages from…