Baker v. Newton
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Original petition for certiorari by Charles Baker against K. R. Newton and D. W. Talbot, County Judge. This is an original action in this court.
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Original petition for certiorari by Charles Baker against K. R. Newton and D. W. Talbot, County Judge. This is an original action in this court. Plaintiff, in his petition, asks that a writ of certiorari issue to the defendant, Talbot, as county judge of Ottawa county, directing him to transmit to this court the entire record in a -qertain cause filed in the county court of Ottawa county by K. R. Newton, plaintiff, against Charles Baker, defendant, and that upon the coming in of said record the judgment in said cause rendered be quashed, and- the defendants prohibited from enforcing the same.…
1Opinion of the CourtHates, J.
(after stating the facts as above). In the consideration of this case, the first question that confronts us is: What is the office of the writ of certiorari as authorized to be issued by this court under section 2' of article 7 of the Constitution (Bunn’s Ed. §170) ? Said seqtion, in part, reads as follows:
“The original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court shall extend to a general superintending control over all inferior courts, and all commissions and boards created by the law. The Supreme Court shall have power to issue writs of habeas corpus, mandamus, quo warranto, certiorari, nrohibition…
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