State Ex Rel. Moore v. Munchmeyer

Neely, Justice:

This is an appeal from a final order of the Circuit Court of Wood County, West Virginia, entered on August 27, 1971, denying appellant’s writ of prohibition. The appellant sought to prohibit Thomas M. Munchmeyer as Special Judge of the Intermediate Court of Wood County from enforcing a juvenile court order which had awarded permanent custody of the appellant’s nine infant children to the Wood County Department of Welfare. The circuit court’s final order of August 27, 1971, found that the Intermediate Court of Wood County, sitting as a juvenile court, had jurisdiction of all…