State Ex Rel. Ginsberg v. Watt

Neely, Justice;

The Commissioner of the West Virginia Department of Welfare seeks a writ of prohibition by this Court directed to Judge Clarence L. Watt of the Circuit Court of Mason County. The petitioner asks that the writ first prohibit the judge from conducting any further proceedings in a civil action involving the petitioner as defendant and Hocken-berry Pharmacies Inc., William Hockenberry and David Morgan as plaintiffs, and second, prohibit him or his court from enforcing his order of 19 October 1981 which stayed the 30 July 1981 order of the Welfare Commissioner suspending the…