Hislop v. Rodgers

— Roy R. Hislop, E. O. Moore and W. O. Click, as city manager, chief of police and city magistrate, respectively, of the City of Phoenix, a municipal corporation, hereinafter called petitioners, filed an original application in this court for a writ of prohibition against G. A. RODGERS as a judge of the superior court of Maricopa county, hereinafter called respondent. An alternative writ was issued requiring the respondent to show cause why it should not be made permanent, and a response was duly made and the matter submitted to us upon the petition and the response.

As preliminary to a…