State Ex Rel. Newkirk v. Sullivan Circuit Court

This is an original action filed by the relator against the respondents, Sullivan Circuit Court, and Norval K. Harris, as Judge of the Sullivan Circuit Court, for a writ of mandate requiring the respondent judge to grant a change of judge. On the filing of this action an alternative writ was issued commanding the respondent judge to set aside his ruling denying a change of judge and to grant the change or show cause why it should not be done.

The facts in this case are as follows: That on June 1, 1949, the respondent judge appointed the relator a member of the County Board of Public Welfare of…