State Bar v. Ingham Circuit Judge

Petitioner, the State Bar of Michigan, filed a petition for a writ of prohibition to restrain Harold H. Emmons, a practicing attorney, from continuing with a certain chancery suit instituted by him in Ingham county and prohibiting Leland W. Carr, a circuit judge in said county, from taking any further proceedings under Emmons’ bill of complaint and requiring him to enter an order vacating a restraining order issued by him on May 3, 1943.

A brief history of the alleged facts may prove helpful in determining the legal issues involved. George H. Cummings died on June 7, 1920, leaving a will.…