Supreme Court of Virginia December 3, 1896 (Moss v. Barham)

Cardwell, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an application to this court for a writ of prohibition. The object in view is to prohibit the respondent, as judge of the Corporation Court of the city of Newport News, and C. ~W. Reynolds and other contestants, from further proceeding in and prosecuting the case pending in that court, wherein the right of the petitioner, A. A.