STATE EX REL. WONDERLY v. ALLEN CIR. COURT

No. 880S343.

412 N.E.2d 1209 (1980)

STATE of Indiana, On the Relation of William K. and Louella M. Wonderly, Relators, v. THE ALLEN CIRCUIT COURT, the Honorable Dalton C. McAlister, Special Judge and the Allen Superior Court, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

December 5, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas L. Wooding and Carolyn W. Spengler, Hunt, Suedhoff, Borror, Eilbacher & Lee, Fort Wayne, for relators.

Neil F. Sandler, Sandler & Sandler, Thomas E. Ruzzo, Fort Wayne, for respondents.


PRENTICE, Justice.

Relators seek to invoke the original jurisdiction of this Court and to have issued a writ of mandate and a temporary writ of prohibition. Ind. Code § 34-1-58-1 (Burns 1973).

The writ of mandate would compel the respondents to issue a writ of habeas corpus in recognition of a guardianship's decree of the Defiance, Ohio Probate Court, and the writ of prohibition would prohibit the respondents from proceeding in a pending adoption proceeding...

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