JOHNSON v. DISTRICT COURT, ETC.

No. 82SA381.

654 P.2d 827 (1982)

Ronnie Edward JOHNSON, Sr., Petitioner, v. The DISTRICT COURT In and For the COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, First Judicial District, and the Honorable Edward C. Day, Sitting for the Honorable Joseph P. Lewis, One of the Judges Thereof, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

November 29, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandra J. Pfaff, Jacqueline St. Joan, Denver, for petitioner.

Kelly, Haglund, Garnsey & Kahn, Terre Lee Rushton, Denver, for respondents.


ROVIRA, Justice.

In this original proceeding under C.A.R. 21, petitioner Ronnie Edward Johnson, Sr., seeks relief in the nature of prohibition and/or mandamus to the respondent district court in connection with its refusal to find that it had jurisdiction over a child-custody matter. We issued a rule to show cause and now make the rule absolute.

Petitioner, who lives in Colorado, is the father of a five-year-old boy. Judy Schrodt Carpenter, the mother, lives...

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