State Ex Rel. Lawson v. Stodola

This is an original action wherein the relator seeks to prohibit the respondent as Judge of the Lake Superior Court from proceeding further in a certain cause filed in Room 5 of the said Court, other than to strike out the motion for a new trial filed therein. The relator also seeks a mandate to compel respondent to expunge the order showing the filing of the motion and the subsequent order ruling on same.

Relator’s petition alleges that on September 3, 1948, he obtained, by default, a money judgment in Room 5 of said Lake Superior Court against one Glenn Crooks; that on September 29, 1948,…