State Ex Rel. Cockrum v. Southern

This is a proceeding wherein relators attempt to prohibit the Honorable Allen C. Southern, one of the judges of the Circuit Court of Jackson County and the Honorable Glenn Donaldson, a referee appointed by him, from proceeding further in a cause pending before said judge in which A. M. Dowell and J. M. Dowell, co-partners, doing business as Dowell Brothers, are plaintiffs and Veigh Cockrum, Hattie Cockrum and Beulah Cockrum, are defendants. Upon the filing of the petition for the writ in this court one of the judges thereof issued a preliminary rule. Respondents have made their return and…