Jackson v. Smith

Jim Johnson, Associate Justice.

This is a petition for a writ of prohibition seeking, on jurisdictional grounds, to prohibit a chancery court from trying a declaratory judgment action.

On June 19,1962, the residuary legatees under the will of Ann H. T. Coley, the Phillips National Bank and Walter L. Coley, executor of the estate of Ann H. T. Coley, filed a petition for declaratory judgment naming the petitioners, C. J. Jackson and Frank Jackson Jordan, as defendants in the Phillips Chancery Court, asking for a determination of rights as to the ownership of certain shares of capital stock in the…