Tompkins v. Manning

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Dismissing the petition for writ of prohibition.

The defendant, A. T. W. Manning, judge of the Laurel circuit court, issued a .rule against plaintiff, J. S. Tompkins, to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt of court committed in the publication and printing of certain alleged contemptuous matter in the Laurel County Sun, a paper owned and published by plaintiff. Tompkins employed as his attorneys, the other plaintiffs, B. Gr. Reams, Reuben Johnson, W. M. Lewis and Ray C. Lewis, and they prepared a response to the rule issued against Tompkins…