Oklahoma Benefit Life Ass'n v. Bird

GIBSON, V. C. J.

This is an original proceeding wherein the petitioners seek a writ of prohibition against the respondent J. W. Bird as judge of the district court of Garfield county, commanding him to renounce jurisdiction and to take no further proceedings in a certain action filed in said court.

The action in the lower court was instituted by one Rumsey and certain other parties against the petitioners, Oklahoma Benefit Life Association, a corporation, and J. T. Tresner and M. J. Tresner, president and secretary, respectively,, of said corporation. The corporation is a mutual benefit…