Black v. Cockrill

Frank Holt, Associate Justice.

The petitioners filed in this court an original petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to compel respondent, the Judge of the Third Division of the Pulaski Circuit Court, to transfer a pending civil suit from that division to the Second Division of that court. The petitioners are the plaintiffs in the pending case.

When they filed their case it was regularly assigned, pursuant to the local court rules, to the Third Division and by agreement of the parties it was set for jury trial. Before trial, however, the petitioners filed a motion to have the cause…