Pennsylvania R. R. v. Rogers

PoEEEJsTBARGER, JUDGE:

This case involves the consideration of questions arising upon the invocation of the extraordinary legal remedy, prohibition, in restraint of the special and limited proceeding, known as garnishment. As prohibition lies only to restrain a court or other tribunal from proceeding without jurisdiction, or in excess of its jurisdiction, and as attachment is a purely statutory proceeding, the questions presented are, principally, jurisdictional in character, and perspicuity demands an inquiry into the nature of both proceedings. This should be preceded, however, by a…