Keenan v. Williams

This is an application by the petitioners for a writ of prohibition to prevent the respondent from proceeding with a chancery case in which these petitioners are the defendants. It is the petitioners ’ contention that the complaint in the court below fails to state a cause of action cognizable in equity.

The complaint was filed by three taxpaying landowners and a judgment creditor of Carden’s Bottom Drainage District No. 2. The plaintiffs allege that the defendants, who are the commissioners of the district, have been guilty of mismanagement in conducting the affairs of the district.…