SCHEER v. DISTRICT COURT

No. 19744.

363 P.2d 1059 (1961)

Richard J. SCHEER, Petitioner, v. DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR the CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER and State of Colorado, and The Honorable Mitchel B. Johns, Judge of said Court, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado. En Banc.

July 17, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred J. Pferdesteller, Fred W. Vondy, Denver, for petitioner.

Bert M. Keating, Dist. Atty., Dorothy E. Binder, Deputy Dist. Atty., Denver, for respondents.


DOYLE, Justice.

This is an original proceeding in prohibition in which petitioner demands that the district court be enjoined from entertaining a case which arose under the Reciprocal Support Act ('53, C.R.S., 43-2-1 to 43-2-16). The essential theory upon which the relief is sought is that the district court of Adams County had previously assumed jurisdiction of a divorce action instituted by petitioner and that it thereby acquired exclusive jurisdiction over the...

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