Case ID: mont_17/html/0518-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE ex rel. SHING, Relator, v. LENAHAN, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Respondent.
    [Submitted February 14, 1896.
    Decided February 17, 1896.]
    
      Cer.tiob.aki — Remedy by appeal. — Wliere it appears by the return to a writ of certiorari issued by this court to a justice of the peace, that the relator had applied to the district court for a similar writ and that the ease had been heard and a judgment entered quashing the writ, the writ issued from this court will be dismissed, since the relator’s proper remedy is by appeal from the judgment of the district court. (State ex rel. Johnson v. Gase, 14 Mont. 520, cited.)
    Original proceeding. Application for Vrit of certiorari to review a judgment of- a justice court.
    Dismissed.
    
      Hammond & Moore, for Relator.
    
      R. A. O'Hara, for Respondent.
   Per Curiam.

On the 22d day of January the relator filed .in this court his petition for a writ of certiorari against J. M. Lenahan, justice of the peace within and for the county of Ravalli, alleging that, in a case pending before said justice of the peace, wherein the state of Montana was plaintiff, and the relator was defendant, the relator filed with the said justice his affidavit for a change of venue from the said justice of the peace, on the ground that he could not have a fair and impartial trial before the said justice, for the reason that the said justice was biased and prejudiced against the relator; that said justice refused to grant the change of venue. His petition further states that, upon the refusal of the said justice to change the venue of the said cause, the relator applied to the Honorable F. H. Woody, judge of the Fourth judicial district court of the state of Montana, for a writ of review against said justice, alleging the facts as hereinbefore set forth as grounds for •the issuance of said writ, but that the said judge of the said district court refused to issue said writ or entertain jurisdiction thereof.

From the return of the said J. M. Lenahan, justice of the peace and respondent, to the writ issued out of this court, requiring the said Lenaban to make return of bis proceedings in the case of the state against the relator above referred to, it appears that the judge of the Fourth judicial district court did entertain jurisdiction of said petition for the writ of review, and did bear counsel on both sides argue the case, and, after such argument by counsel, did enter judgment that the said relator was not entitled to said writ.

This judgment of the district court, quashing the writ of review, was an appealable judgment. (See State ex rel. Johnson v. Case, 14 Mont. 520; Santa Cruz Gap Turnpike Joint-Stock Co. v. Board of Supervisors, 62 Cal. 40; also, § 1941, Code of Civil Procedure, 1895.)

Tbe relator’s remedy was by appeal from this judgment of tbe district court, and the writ must therefore be dismissed. It is so ordered.

Writ dismissed.