Peters v. Narick

In this proceeding instituted pursuant to the provisions of W.Va. Code 53-1-1 to 12 (1966), Stephen W. Peters petitions this Court to prohibit further proceedings by respondent Steven D. Narick, Judge of the Circuit Court for Marshall County, in an action for separate maintenance instituted by petitioner’s spouse Janet L. Peters, the intervenor/respondent pursuant to W.Va. Code 48-2-28 (1976).1 Petitioner contends this statute operates to deny him equal protection of the laws as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and by Article III, Section 17 of the West…