Logan v. Harris

Appellant is a justice of the peace in the City of Clarksville. Appellee was the mayor of said city, and, under ordinances 375 and 376, which undertook to establish a municipal court for said city, he was named therein as the judge of said court. After the adoption of said ordinances, the first on June 30, 1947, and the second on July 17, 1947, appellant issued a warrant against appellee for his arrest on a charge of misdemeanor and assumed jurisdiction to try him on said charge. Appellee sought a writ of prohibition from the circuit court on the ground that after the establishment of a…