State Ex Rel. Whaley v. Porterfield

This is an original proceeding in prohibition wherein the relator seeks to prohibit the Hon. E. E. Porterfield, one of the judges of the circuit court of Jackson county, Missouri, from tailing further cognizance of the ease of Merchants Bank v. Whaley, therein pending. A preliminary writ was issued and the case now comes upon the question of making it permanent.

The facts show that the Merchants Bank on October 13, 1923, instituted a suit in the justice court of Jackson county, Missouri, against the relator by filing a statement therein in twro counts in which it was alleged that defendant had…