State ex rel. Clough v. Taylor

The petitioner, Clough, seeks a writ of prohibition directed against Alva E. Taylor, judge of the circuit court of the Ninth judicial circuit of the state of South Dakota.

The facts upon which petitioner seeks the writ, briefly, are as follows: Action was commenced against petitioner, Clough, in the circuit court of Beadle county, wherein judgment was asked in the amount of $76.05. No answer was made by the defendant, and on May 23, 1931, judgment by default was entered, signed by the judge against whom the writ in this action is sought. Prior to the time of the entry of the default judgment,…