Brown v. Moore

Ross, J.:

Application for a writ prohibiting the respondent from proceeding further in the matter of certain contempt proceedings against the petitioners.

From the verified petition it appears that during the month of April, 1882, sundry suits at law were commenced by divers persons against one Bartlett in the Justices’ Courts of Amador county to recover certain moneys alleged to be due from Bartlett to the respective plaintiffs in those suits. Judgment passed for the plaintiffs therein, on which executions were issued and placed in the hands of the petitioners in the present proceeding, who…