Sherwood v. New England Knitting Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application for a writ of prohibition, made to the Son. John M. Thayer, a judge of the Superior Court, in vacation; facts found and judgment rendered dismissing the application, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings of the judge. This was an application to a judge of the Superior Court, in vacation, to issue a writ of prohibition against the Court of Common Pleas in Litchfield. County, and Arthur D. Warner, the judge of that court.
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Application for a writ of prohibition, made to the Son. John M. Thayer, a judge of the Superior Court, in vacation; facts found and judgment rendered dismissing the application, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings of the judge. This was an application to a judge of the Superior Court, in vacation, to issue a writ of prohibition against the Court of Common Pleas in Litchfield. County, and Arthur D. Warner, the judge of that court. The application stated that the New England Knitting Company, a corporation located in Winchester in said Litchfield County, on the 3d day…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
Bacon’s Abridgment, volume five, at p. 646, says: “As all external jurisdiction ... is derived from the crown, and the administration of justice is committed to a great variety of courts, hence it hath been the care of the crown, that these courts keep within the limits and bounds of their several jurisdictions prescribed them by the laws and statutes of the realm. And for this purpose the writ of prohibition was framed . . . The object of prohibition in general is, the preservation of the right of the king’s crown and courts, and the ease and quiet of the subject. For it is the wisdom and…
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