State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Press Pub. Co. v. District Court

HERR, C.

This is an original proceeding brought in this court by the Oklahoma Press Publishing Company, a domestic corporation, against the district court of Cherokee county, J. T. Parks, judge, and W. M. Gulager, for a writ of prohibition prohibiting respondents from further proceeding in a libel suit filed in said court.

Petitioner is the publisher of a newspaper published in the city of Muskogee, Muskogee county, and all its principal officers reside in said county. Respondent, Gulager, is also a resident of Muskogee counts’.

A libel suit was filed by respondent Gul-ager against the…