State Ex Rel. Brooks v. Freeland

This is an original proceeding in prohibition. The object sought is to permanently prohibit the respondent, Hon. W. L. Freeland, one of the Circuit Judges of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of this State, from requiring the relator, Marion Brooks, an attorney at law, to return into the registry of the court the sum of $1572.08 alleged to have been withdrawn by him for his client under order of Hon. H. F. Atkinson, another judge of the same Circuit, in a cause wherein W. & W. Corporation was complainant, and Max Feit, et al., were defendants, under penalty of being committed to jail for contempt…