Jenkins v. District Court ex rel. Eighth Judicial District

ROVIRA, Justice.

*1203The petitioner, Joseph P. Jenkins,1 brought this original proceeding for relief in the nature of prohibition pursuant to C.A.R. 21, contending that the respondent’s order requiring him to produce certain documents is in violation of section 12-5-120, C.R.S.1973 (1978 Repl.Vol. 5). We issued a rule to show cause and now discharge the rule.

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The facts in this case are, for the most part, not in dispute and can be concisely stated. The petitioner is an attorney who, over a period of years, represented a businessman, D.D. Shanks. In a lawsuit in which Shanks, represented by…