State Ex Rel. J. P. (Bum) Gibbins, Inc. v. District Court of the Fifth Judicial District

LUJAN, Chief Justice.

The relators seek by prohibition to restrain John R. Brand as a Judge of the Fifth Judicial District, within and for Lea County, from holding a hearing in a compensation case, wherein the claimant in said cause has filed an application for medical and surgical treatment, until such time as a judicial determination has been made of whether or not the employer of the claimant is obligated to pay compensation, as provided by the provisions of the New Mexico Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1953 Comp. § 59-10-1 et seq., to the claimant. Upon the filing and reading of relators’…