Tioga Coal Corp. v. Silman

Lovins, Judge:

The Tioga Coal Corporation applied to the Circuit Court of Nicholas County for a writ in prohibition directed to A. G. Bredon, a justice of the peace of that county, Alfred Bickerstaff and Orval Woods, constables, and Lester Sil-man prohibiting them from proceeding further in a civil action in which a judgment had been rendered in favor of Silman and against petitioner, and on which judgment execution had issued.

Silman filed his answer to the petition, without issuance of a rule, but the other respondents did not appear. At the conclusion of a hearing at which testimony was…