Butkiewicz v. Williams

Minor W. Millwee, Associate Justice.

This is an application for a writ of prohibition to restrain the judge of the Second Division of the Pulaski Chancery Court from proceeding further in a suit brought against petitioners by the administratrix of the estate of Beuben W. Bredlow, deceased, and to require said chancellor to transfer the cause to the Pulaski Circuit Court. Petitioners assert that the proceeding pending below is a tort action for the recovery and conversion of personal property, which is not cognizable in equity; that the chancellor had overruled petitioners’ request for transfer…