STATE EX REL. PAT GRIFFIN COMPANY v. City of Butte

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES T. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This appeal from the district court of Silver Bow County involves a petition for a writ of prohibition filed by appellant, Pat Griffin Co., against respondent, City of Butte, seeking to prohibit the enforcement of Ordinance No. 2283. The City filed a motion to quash and challenged the appellant’s right to proceed by prohibition. On January 8, 1968, Judge W. W. Lessley, having assumed jurisdiction upon disqualification of both of the judges of the second judicial district, entered his order granting the City’s motion to…