Case Name: State ex rel. Top Rock Bottling Company, A Corporation v. Hereford, Judge, Circuit Court, Putnam County, et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
Jurisdiction: West Virginia
Decision Date: 1961-01-31
Citations: 146 W. Va. 78
Docket Number: No. 12090
Parties: State ex rel. Top Rock Bottling Company, A Corporation v. Hereford, Judge, Circuit Court, Putnam County, et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: West Virginia Supreme Court
Volume: 146
Pages: 78–79

Head Matter:
State ex rel. Top Rock Bottling Company, A Corporation v. Hereford, Judge, Circuit Court, Putnam County, et al.
(No. 12090)
Submitted January 11, 1961.
Decided January 31, 1961.
Palmer & Elkins, J. Campbell Palmer, III, for relator.
Cletus B. Hanley, for respondents.

Opinion:
Browning, Judge:
In this original proceeding in prohibition petitioner seeks to prohibit the respondent judge from proceeding further in the civil actions of Holbrook v. Top Rock Bottling Company, a Corporation, which cases were removed to the Circuit Court of Putnam County by the Judge of the Common Pleas Court of Kanawha County under the purported authority of Code, 56-9-1, as amended. That section provides for the removal of a case for good cause shown "if pending in a circuit court, to any other circuit court, and if pending in any court of limited jurisdiction heretofore mentioned to the circuit court of that county:
Under this statute the only court to which these cases could have been removed is the Circuit Court of Ka-nawha County. The writ must be awarded.
Writ awarded.