State Ex Rel. Neel v. Love

In this case a rule nisi in prohibition was issued against the Judges of the Circuit Court of Leon County and Margaret Dunkle, the plaintiff in a suit at common law pending therein, upon an allegation that the Circuit Court was about to- proceed to judgment against the relators, Néel Brothers, as defendants in that Court, without having obtained jurisdiction over the persons of said defendants. The case is now before us upon an application for a writ of prohibition absolute.

That prohibition is an appropriate remedy to restrain proceedings in a suit at common law wherein the Court has never…