Caldwell v. Dodge

Hart, C. J.,

(after stating the facts). This court has uniformly held that the office of the writ of prohibition is to restrain an inferior tribunal from proceeding-in a matter not within its jurisdiction, but it is never granted unless the inferior tribunal has clearly exceeded its authority and the party applying for the writ has no other adequate protection against the wrong that shall be done by such usurpation. Macon v. LeCroy, 174 Ark. 228, 295 S. W. 31.

Again, in Merchants’ & Planters’ Bank v. Hammock, 178 Ark. 746, 12 S. W. (2d), 421, the court held that the writ of prohibition is never…