State Ex Rel. Raney, Etc. v. Gibson Cir. Ct., Etc.

Relator seeks a writ of mandate and prohibition to require respondents to dismiss a cross-complaint filed in a wrongful death case pending in respondent-court, and to prohibit them from exercising further jurisdiction thereof. We issued an alternative writ.

On June 1, 1959, relator, as administratrix of the estate of George Richard Raney, deceased, under appointment of the Daviess Circuit Court, filed her complaint in the Gibson Circuit Court against one Orris Junior Young for the wrongful death of her decedent growing out of an automobile accident which occurred April 5, 1959. Summons was…