State Ex Rel. Niedziejko v. Coffey

The trial judge granted respondent’s motion to quash the writs on the ground (1)- that the threatened acts of Judge Coffey sought to be restrained by writs of prohibition would be performed when Judge Coffey was acting in a ministerial rather than judicial capacity; (2) that petitioners have an adequate remedy at law; and (3) that prohibition will not lie as to completed acts. It has long ago been settled in this state that a writ of prohibition will lie against a magistrate in the conduct of a John Doe proceeding if he is exercising judicial powers. State ex rel. Long v. Keyes (1889), 75…