State Ex Rel. Davie v. Bolton

McGHEE, Justice.

" The appellants seek the reversal of a judgment denying them a writ of prohibition against a justice of the peace.

The relators joined in filing suit in the justice court of Precinct 12 in San Juan County against A. L. Boles on open accounts severally claimed owing to them individually and had Carol Spencer summoned as garnishee. An affidavit was filed stating that the defendant was a nonresident of New Mexico1 and that it would be •necessary to procure service upon him by publication, whereupon the justice signed the notice which was published in a local newspaper warning the…