Adams v. Pratt, District Judge

ELIAS HANSEN, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff seeks to prohibit the defendants from dispossessing him, by means of a writ of assistance, from the possession of two tracts of land situated in Davis county, Utah. Upon a verified petition filed in this court, a writ of prohibition was issued commanding the defendants and each of them to desist from further proceeding in the matter of dispossessing plaintiff from such land until the further order of this court and to show cause before this court why the temporary writ of prohibition should not be made permanent.

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