State ex rel. Hatt v. Stuteville

Relator has filed original action in this Court for writ of mandate to compel respondent under Rule 1-12 of this Court cited below1 to disqualify himself as Judge to hear plaintiff’s petition for attorneys’ fees in the divorce case of Dorothy B. Hatt v. Herbert G. Hatt, et al., Cause No. 5644 in the Spencer Circuit Court. We issued the temporary writ.

From relator’s petition it appears that plaintiff brought the divorce action of Hatt v. Hatt et al., supra, which is pending before respondent judge and that plaintiff requested attorneys’ fees for plaintiff’s attorneys to enable them to resist…