LEVITT MULTIHOUS. CORP. v. DISTRICT CT. OF EL PASO CTY.

No. 26691.

534 P.2d 1207 (1975)

LEVITT MULTIHOUSING CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation, Petitioner, v. DISTRICT COURT OF EL PASO COUNTY, FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, DIVISION 3, George M. Gibson, Judge, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

May 5, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cole, Hecox, Tolley, Edwards & Hero, Lawrence A. Hecox, Colorado Springs, for petitioner.

Bledsoe, Smith, Cathcart, Boyd & Eliot, Lawrence G. Lossing, San Francisco, Cal., Grant, Shafroth, Toll & McHendrie, P. C., Douglas McHendrie, James E. Brown, Denver, for respondent.

Weller, Friedrich, Hichisch & Hazlitt, John R. Hickisch, Denver, Anderson, McPharlin & Conners, G. Wayne Murphy, David T. DiBiase, Los Angeles, Cal., for Commercial Standard Ins. Co., amicus curiae.


DAY, Justice.

This is an original proceeding by Levitt Multihousing Corporation (hereinafter referred to as either Levitt or plaintiff) which petitions for a writ in the nature of prohibition. Plaintiff alleges the respondent district court has exceeded its jurisdiction in permitting T.I.T.S. Development Corporation to file a counterclaim contrary to the statutes of Colorado and the full faith and credit clause—U.S.Const., art. IV, § 1.

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