Porter v. Stanford

PHELPS, Chief Justice.

The petitioners, Pearline Porter and Pauline P. Leonard, seek a writ of prohibition to restrain the respondent court and the Honorable R. C. Stanford, Jr., one of the judges thereof, from enforcing an order for the payment of support money to Gladys E. Porter from the assets of property which petitioners allege to be partnership property. Following informal hearing alternative writ issued.

The facts are that on February 13, 1959, Gladys E. Porter commenced an action for separate maintenance against her nonresident husband, William Arnold Porter, in the superior court of…