Buckingham v. Fifth Judicial District Court of the State

OPINION

By the Court,

Orr, J.:

This is an application for a writ of prohibition.

D. M. Buckingham is the duly elected and acting county clerk and ex officio treasurer of the county of Mineral, State of Nevada. On the 7th day of October 1939 the State of Nevada, on the relation of Farrell Seevers, as complainant, filed in the district court of the Fifth judicial district of the State of Nevada, in and for the county of Mineral, a certain amended complaint, the pertinent portions of which are as follows:

“1. That Defendant did, while acting as such County Clerk and County Treasurer of Mineral…