Kyger v. Koerper

This case reaches this court on transfer from the Springfield Court of Appeals. The proceeding is one in prohibition to restrain defendant-appellant, Koerper, a justice of the peace in Lawrence County, from issuing execution upon a judgment rendered by him against plaintiffs-respondents, who were defendants in an unlawful detainer action pending before him styled “M. E. England and Omah England, plaintiffs, v. Frijol IT. Kyger and Mrs. Fred H. Kyger, defendants.” The Lawrence- Circuit Court issued its preliminary rule, and, on hearing, it was made absolute.' The defendant justice of the peace…