Cardot v. Luff

Miller, Justice:

In this original prohibition proceeding, we are asked to prohibit the respondent judge from refusing the motion by relators to be relieved as counsel for certain defendants in two civil actions pending in the Circuit Court of Barbour County.

An affidavit with attached exhibits filed with the petition reveals that relators were retained on an hourly fee basis on July 15, 1977. It appears that at the time they were retained, the two civil actions had already been initiated. Relators received an advance of $5,000, of which $1,500 was expended for accounting and investigating…