Reed v. Cunningham

Carleton Harris, Chief Justice.

This is a petition for a writ of prohibition wherein we are asked to direct the Chancellor of the 8th Chancery District to refrain from a trial of a cause now docketed in his court, and to retransfer the cause to the Jackson Circuit Court. On February 2, 1959, C. W. Reed filed an action in unlawful detainer against O. D. Mitts in the Jackson Circuit Court. A bond was filed by Reed for the purpose of obtaining immediate possession. Mitts filed a cross-bond, but his sureties subsequently withdrew, and possession of the premises passed to Reed. Mitts did not, and…