State ex rel. Kiekhaefer v. Anderson

The fundamental issue presented on this appeal is whether this is a proper case in which to have invoked the extraordinary remedy of resort to a writ of prohibition.

Sec. 8, art. VII of the Wisconsin constitution, grants to the circuit courts “supervisory control” over inferior courts, and to issue writs “necessary ... to give them a general control over inferior courts.” The legislature, by special act, has conferred authority upon the county court of Dodge county to exercise the “powers and jurisdiction in all civil actions and proceedings in law and equity, except as to actions and…