Tab Construction Co. v. Eighth Judicial District Court

OPINION

By the Court,

Zenoff, J.:

Petitioner seeks a writ of prohibition to prevent the respondent court from proceeding with a civil action on the ground that the Nevada Industrial Insurance Act provides full and exclusive remedy, and thus, the respondent is without jurisdiction. Respondent does not dispute that Nevada law prohibits this civil suit, but urges that the lower court has jurisdiction to proceed because the action is based on Arizona law, that Arizona law is applicable and does not prohibit the suit.

On April 26, 1967 the petitioner, Tab Construction Company, a Nevada corporation,…