Doughty, Pearson & Co. v. Walker

Warner, Chief Justice.

This was an application by the petitioners to the judge of the superior court of the Atlanta circuit, for a writ of prohibition to restrain the defendant, as a justice of the peace, from entertaining and hearing a motion to set aside a judgment rendered by him in his court against a garnishee for the sum of $57 00 principal, with interest and costs, on the grounds stated in the motion. The presiding judge refused the writ prayed for, and the petitioners excepted.

1. A writ of prohibition, as defined by Blackstone, is a writ issuing properly out of the court of King’s…