White v. Rakestraw

DAVISON, Justice.

This case involves an original proceeding in which petitioner asks this Court to assume original jurisdiction and issue a writ of prohibition, prohibiting respondent, Arthur Lory Rakestraw, a Special Judge of the District Court of Oklahoma County, from conducting an evidentiary hearing to determine whether the petitioner, Leslie Ray White, has a legitimate defense of “title”, as he attested to in an affidavit which he filed in an action of forcible entry and detainer brought against him.

Petitioner White is a tenant of Continental Oil Company, who brought a forcible entry and…