MORELAND v. HELM


350 S.W.2d 149 (1961)

Burton MORELAND, Petitioner, v. Hon. Blakey HELM, Judge, Chancery Branch Third Division Jefferson Circuit Court, et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

October 6, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce R. Hamilton, La Grange, for petitioner.

D. L. Frederick, Louisville, for Flora Mae Moreland.


PALMORE, Judge.

Burton Moreland petitions this court to prohibit Hon. Blakey Helm, one of the judges of the Jefferson Circuit Court, from proceeding to hear and determine a divorce action brought against him in that court by Flora Mae Moreland, who also is made a respondent.

The remedy of prohibition does not lie against one who neither possesses nor proposes to exercise a judicial or quasi-judicial function. Brents v. Burnett, 1943, 295 Ky. 337, 174 S.W.2d...

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