Layne v. Grossman

Upon consideration of the petition for writ of prohibition, the response thereto, and argument of counsel, we conclude that the trial court should have granted petitioners’ motion to disqualify.

The essential allegations of the motion to disqualify, the truth of which must be accepted, were that the petitioners, through Layne, had asked a third party whether the respondent had in the past been represented by the same counsel who were representing Layne and Bernstein’s adversary in the action pending before the respondent, and that the respondent, upon *526being informed by the third party of…