State ex rel. Gleason v. Rickhoff

CLEMENS, Presiding Judge.

Original proceeding in prohibition to bar respondent judge from ordering relators to surrender property. Relators contend respondent acted without giving them adequate notice. We issued our preliminary writ and the parties have briefed, argued and submitted the cause. We conclude our original writ was issued improvidently and now quash it.

The trial court proceedings, all in 1975, stem from the insolvency of the Lincoln National Mutual Fire Insurance Company (hereafter referred to as “company”). On May 22 a verified petition for appointment of a receiver was filed. A…