State Ex Rel. Rowlett v. Wilson

FINCH, Judge.

Relator seeks a writ of prohibition directing respondent judge to refrain from ordering relator to answer interrogatories propounded to him in a suit for an accounting. We quash our provisional rule in prohibition previously entered.

Mrs. Audrey Thornton sued relator, her former husband, for an accounting of farm income and pasture rental from a 640 acre farm which they had owned during their marriage. Her petition alleged that under a contract executed in connection with a suit to dissolve their marriage, each party was to pay his respective share of farm expenses and receive his…