Sprinkle v. Walter L. Couse Company

Appeal from an order of the circuit court which granted a motion to quash a statutory writ of certiorari previously granted to the Jefferson County Civil Court.

Appellant filed a suit for damages against appellee in the Jefferson County Civil Court. Trial was had on October 31, 1962, and during the trial, for reasons not stated nor shown in the record, appellant took a voluntary nonsuit. Thereafter, on January 7, 1963, the time for taking an appeal having expired, appellant petitioned a circuit judge for a statutory writ of certiorari praying for a trial de novo in the circuit court. The writ…