State Ex Rel. Wonderly v. Allen Circuit Court

PRENTICE, Justice.

Relators seek to invoke the original jurisdiction of this Court and to have issued a writ of mandate and a temporary writ of prohibition. Ind.Code § 34-1-58-1 (Burns 1973).

The writ of mandate would compel the respondents to issue a writ of habeas corpus in recognition of a guardianship’s decree of the Defiance, Ohio Probate Court, and the writ of prohibition would prohibit the respondents from proceeding in a pending adoption proceeding concerning the children who are the subjects of the Ohio guardianship.

For purposes of clarity we will set forth the facts which brought…