Conservative Life Insurance v. Alexander

Jjitz, Judge:

Relator, Conservative Life Insurance Company, a corporation, seeks a writ of prohibition against the Honorable A. S. Alexander, Judge of the Common Pleas Court of Kanawha County, inhibiting him from entertaining jurisdiction of an action appealed from a justice.

Respondent, John J. Alessandrini, trading and doing business as the Charleston Tile & Marble Works, instituted the action against relator before a justice of the peace in Kanawha County April 7, 1933, for the recovery of $129.90 “due on contract.”

Service of the summons, returnable April 21, 1933, was accepted by the…