Cooper v. Ward

CULLEN, Commissioner.

In an original proceeding in this Court, ■Claude V. Cooper sought a writ of prohibition restraining and prohibiting Hon. S. M. Ward, regular judge of the Perry ■Circuit Court, from taking any further steps or proceedings in the case of Cooper v. Cooper, in which Judge Ward had entered a judgment for alimony in favor of Mr. Cooper’s divorced wife. The petition also prayed that any further proceedings under the judgment be stayed until the further orders of this Court. The main .ground for the writ was that Judge Ward had no jurisdiction to act in the case, because of an…