State ex rel. McMahan v. First Judicial District Court

*315OPINION

By the Court,

Badt, C. J.:

Does the fact of the holding of a pre-trial hearing, of and in itself, constitute the hearing of a contested matter so as to preclude the effectiveness of a later affidavit of prejudice under the provisions of NRS 1.230(5) ?1

There was pending in the respondent district court an action commenced by the relator (formerly Stella Lenore Baker) against her former husband Fay Loftus Baker and his present wife Margaret Rowe Baker, and after issue was joined and before a hearing on any contested matter, a pre-trial conference was held on February 15, 1962, after which,…