Commonwealth ex rel. Department for Natural Resources & Environmental Protection v. Williams

STERNBERG, Justice.

In this original action the petitioners, Department for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection and Robert F. Stephens, Attorney General, Commonwealth of Kentucky, seek to prohibit a judge of the Franklin Circuit Court from enforcing an order holding them in contempt. The pro*475ceedings which resulted in the issuance of the contempt order came about in this manner.

On November 1, 1974, the petitioners herein filed a civil suit in the Franklin Circuit Court against Morris Stephens and Tombstone Junction Enterprises, hereinafter referred to as the landowners. The purpose…