Hewitt v. Ryan

McCORMICK, Justice.

We granted review of a court of appeals decision conditionally sustaining a petition for writ of mandamus. Plaintiff Donald J. Hewitt requested the writ in an original action in this court, alleging that defendant Judge Rodney J. Ryan should be prohibited from conducting proceedings in the district court for valuing an interest in stock awarded to Donald’s former wife in a dissolution action. We transferred the mandamus action to the court of appeals. In previously deciding an appeal in the dissolution case, the court of appeals had found that a valuation of the stock was…