State ex rel. Warren v. Ayer

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Scott, C. J.

This was an application for a writ of prohibition to restrain the respondent from proceeding with the administration of the estate of one James Burns, deceased, pending in said court, on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction thereof. Upon an ex parte showing to the effect that the superior court of Pierce county had first appointed the relator as administrator of the estate of said James Burns, and that said Burns was a resident of Pierce county at the time of his death, an alternative writ was issued, and the matter now comes up on…