State Ex Rel. Sibbald v. Huntington

This is an original application in this court for a writ of prohibition permanently restraining the respondent, as justice of the peace for Kelso precinct, Cowlitz county, from further proceeding in a criminal action pending before him. The facts upon which the relator bases his application, as exhibited by his affidavit, are as follows:

The relator, an attorney at law, prepared and filed in the office of the county auditor a petition, bearing the names of six taxpayers, for the recall from office of W. J. Martin, one of the commissioners of Cowlitz county. Soon thereafter, Martin filed a…