State Ex Rel. Hamshaw v. Justice Court

This is an appeal by defendants from a peremptory writ of prohibition entered by the district court prohibiting them from entertaining and assuming jurisdiction of an action pending in the defendant court.

The appeal presents the single question whether defendants have jurisdiction of the action. The action therein pending was instituted by Jens C. Peterson against relator Hamshaw and others. The complaint by Peterson charges that on December 4, 1937, he was in the actual and peaceable possession of certain mining property described by legal subdivisions; that on that day and while he was so…