Lock v. Stout

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Settle

Denying writ of prohibition.

The petitioners, J. S. Lock and others, seek in this case, by petition filed in this court, a writ of prohibition against the respondent, Robert L. Stout, as Judge of the Franklin Circuit Court, to prevent him from further proceeding in the hearing or determination of the matters in controversy between the petitioners and J. "W. Jeffers, receiver of the Central Life Insurance Company, raised by the answer and cross-petition of the latter filed in an action pending therein, brought by M. C. Clay, Insurance Commissioner of…