In re Scott

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

QUARLES, J.

The petitioners, M. F. Scott and Nettie L. Scott, filed their petition, in this court, praying that a temporary writ of prohibition issue prohibiting the respondent Lightfoot from proceeding as master in chancery under orders made at chambers by the respondent Stuart, as third judge of the first judicial circuit, in a partition suit wherein the petitioners are the plaintiffs, and more than one hundred persons are defendants, on the ground that the appointment of such master was made without jurisdiction; and, praying that on final hearing the writ *460be made…