State Ex Rel. Leake v. Harris

Prohibition. Honorable Beown Harris is Judge of the Circuit Court of Jackson County. J. H. Smedley was appointed receiver in a certain cause pending in said circuit court. Relators seek to prohibit said judge from taking further cognizance of said cause or making any other or further orders therein, and said receiver from further acting as such.

The record shows that Kansas City, Missouri, as plaintiff, filed a suit in said circuit court against Paul E. Leake et al., doing business as Sterling & Company, charging that defendants were engaged in what the petition denominates the “loan shark…