State Ex Rel. Allen v. Vermillion Circuit Court

The relators filed their petition for a writ of prohibition and mandate against special judge Allen H. Helt, respondent herein. The response and return thereto by the special judge makes no denial of the facts. It appears, therefore, from the allegations of the petition that there were two cases pending in the Vermilion Circuit Court for recovery of alleged salary due Marie Giordano and Charlotte Kinderman as assistants in the office of the treasurer of Vermillion County. Shortly after the filing of said causes the Honorable Frank Fisher, judge of the Vermillion Circuit Court, died, and the…