White v. County Court of Roane County

Lively, President:

By his petition and rule in prohibition Andrew White seeks to prohibit the County Court of Roane County from further proceeding in the trial of an alleged contempt committed by him against said county court. The county court has made no appearance nor return to the rule.

Petitioner alleges that the county court had relocated a road through his land, which relocation also ran through his land almost parallel to the old road; that he was informed by the president of the county court that the old road had been abandoned after the new one had been opened; whereupon he felled…