State ex rel. Johnson v. Superior Court

This is an original action in this court by which relator seeks a writ of prohibition enjoining and prohibiting the superior court of Walla Walla county from further proceeding in a probate matter. The facts, as they are made to appear here, are substantially as follows:

Ellene M. Johnson, being then the wife of Oakley Johnson, and the mother of two daughters, died about April 14, 1904, leaving a non-intervention last will, by the terms of which she devised and bequeathed to each of the daughters the sum of five dollars, and to her surviving husband all of the remainder of her estate,…