State Ex Rel. Rice v. Porterfield

This is an original proceeding brought in this court seeking to prohibit the respondent Porter-field as Judge of Division Seven of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, at Kansas City, from proceeding in the case of John 0. Bose v. L. D. Rice and August D. Adam, Receivers of the Simplex Spreader Manufacturing Company. The defendants in that case are the petitioners in this case. A. preliminary writ of prohibition was issued. Respondents filed a demurrer to the petition for the writ.

The facts as disclosed by the petition for the writ are as follows:

That on April 24, 1923, there was…