State ex rel. Cook v. Circuit Court

This is an original suit brought by the State of Indiana, on relation of Martha P. Cook, against the Madison Circuit Court, William A. Kittinger, presiding judge thereof, and the Commercial Bank and Trust Company of Alexandria, Indiana, to obtain a writ of prohibition prohibiting the defendants from exercising any jurisdiction over the person or property of Henry H. Cook.

The complaint and returns thereto show that on November 11, 1922, the relatrix filed in the office of the clerk of the Madison Circuit Court her verified petition in writing in two paragraphs. The first alleged that one Henry…