Johnson v. District Court ex rel. County of Jefferson

ROVIRA, Justice.

In this original proceeding under C.A.R. 21, petitioner Ronnie Edward Johnson, Sr., seeks relief in the nature of prohibition and/or mandamus to the respondent district court in connection with its refusal to find that it had jurisdiction over a child-custody matter. We issued a rule to show cause and now make the rule absolute.

Petitioner, who lives in Colorado, is the father of a five-year-old boy. Judy Schrodt Carpenter, the mother, lives in Tennessee. The natural parents have never been married to one another. The mother had actual physical custody of the child from the…