Case Name: In re Nash
Court: Colorado Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Colorado
Decision Date: 1916-09
Citations: 62 Colo. 101
Docket Number: No. 9049
Parties: In re Nash.
Judges: 
Reporter: Colorado Reports
Volume: 62
Pages: 101–101

Head Matter:
[No. 9049.]
In re Nash.
1. Ne Exeat — Scope of the Writ, has not been enlarged by the code. (101.)
Petitioner being defendant in an action for slander was arrested and detained under a writ of Ne Exeat. He was discharged upon his petition under the habeas corpus act'. (101.)
2. Supreme Court — Jurisdiction. Petitioner being unlawfully detained under process from the District Court, this court entertained his .petition under the habeas corpus act, and ordered his discharge. (101.)
Mr. John T. Bottom, for petitioner.
Mr. W. B. Wiley, for respondent.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice White
delivered the opinion of the court.
The sole question involved herein is whether petitioner may be legally held in custody by the sheriff of Moffat County under and by virtue of a writ of Ne Exeat República, issued out of the District Court for that county, in an action at law there pending, to recover of petitioner herein damages for slander.
The scope of the writ of Ne Exeat has not, in this state, been enlarged by statute, — sec. 469, Code of Civil Procedure, — and if there are exceptions, as claimed, to the rule that the writ is a mesne process of equity, the underlying facts in the action for slander were insufficient to authorize the issuance of the writ. — People, ex rel v. Barton, 16 Colo. 75, 80, 26 Pac. 149, 29 Cyc. 384, 386, 387.
The petitioner is, therefore, entitled to rely upon the habeas corpus act and is accordingly discharged from custody.
Decision en banc.