State ex rel. Jensen v. Cannon

In a case pending before the respondent circuit judge, the relators, through their counsel, filed a motion to disqualify him upon the ground of prejudice. Accompanying the motion was a deposition, a transcript of certain proceedings before the respondent and three affidavits, two of which were those of Keith and Paul Jensen, litigants in the pending case, and the third that of an out-of-state attorney, who represented the litigants. The basis of the mo*536tion for disqualification was the prejudice and hostility allegedly demonstrated by the respondent toward relators and their counsel during the…