State Ex Rel. Sewell Valley Railroad v. Sharp

LlTZ, PRESIDENT :

The relators, Sewell Yalley Railroad Company, a corporation, and Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, a corporation, and Jack Gaines, seek, by writ of prohibition, to prohibit the respondents, the Honorable S. H. Sharp, Judge of the Circuit Court of Greenbrier County, and James McClung, from further action on a rule against relators for contempt for alleged violation of an injunction.

The proceeding in contempt, commenced August 6th, last, followed immediately the certification, July 28th, of the mandate from this court in a suit in chancery, instituted in the circuit court of…