Allen v. Lackey

This is an original proceeding in this court wherein J. A. Allen, the petitioner, seeks a writ of prohibition against the Honorable W. A. Lackey, as Judge of the Fifteenth Judicial District of the State of Oklahoma.

The petitioner is plaintiff, and John E. Layden and others are defendants, in an action in the district court of Pittsburg county wherein plaintiff seeks judgment for money and foreclosure of a lien asserted under mechanics’ and materialmens’ statutes. Trial was had to a jury which failed to agree, and the action now pends at issue in said court.

During the trial one Enoch, who…