Coleman v. Schmid

DENYING ORDER OF PROHIBITION

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Petitioners Nora Coleman and Carrie L. Lipsey seek an order prohibiting respondent Lyndon R. Schmid, a circuit judge of Jefferson County, from entertaining further proceedings in a certain civil action brought in the Jefferson Circuit Court against petitioners by James and Alma Dorsey. The petitioners maintain that the circuit court has no jurisdiction of the action because it is in personam and they are nonresidents summoned by constructive service only.

In the circuit court action the Dorseys alleged that they had entered into a contract with…