State Ex Rel. Mayhew v. Reeves, J., Etc.

Relators seek a writ of prohibition to prevent the Vanderburgh Circuit Court and the Honorable Ollie C. Reeves, as Judge thereof, from exercising further jurisdiction in a certain vacation proceeding, being Cause No. 7548 in such court, and filed pursuant to Acts 1907, ch. 279, §3, p. 617, being §48-903, Burns’ 1950 Replacement. We issued a temporary writ.

An action for the vacation of a “street, alley or public ground” pursuant to §48-903, supra, is a special statutory proceeding; City of Jasper v. Taichert & Schneider (1937), 103 Ind. App. 302, 7 N. E. 2d 534; and all jurisdictional…