Poss v. District Court in and for El Paso County

This is an original proceeding wherein Poss seeks to enjoin the district court in and for El Paso County from proceeding further in a certain civil matter now pending in that court wherein he is the party defendant. Poss claims that the service of process upon him in that proceeding is invalid and hence the district court in and for El Paso County does not have jurisdiction over his person.

This controversy emerges out of the following sequence of events:

1. On June 12, 1964, Poss (a resident of South Dakota temporarily in Colorado) was involved in an automobile accident which occurred in El…