State Ex Rel. Frank v. Porterfield

This is an original proceeding in prohibition in which, it is sought to prohibit the Honorable E. E. Porterfield, judge of the juvenile court of Jackson county, from assuming jurisdiction in a certain cause in which one Rexford Frank, a male child two and one-half years old and the son of the relator, is being proceeded against as a “neglected child,” under the provisions of Article VI, Chapter 21, Revised Statutes 1919.

We have heretofore issued a preliminary writ and the case now comes up for a decision as to whether we should make the writ permanent.

The petition for the writ alleges that on…