National Life & Casualty Insurance Co. v. Mowre

This is an original proceeding wherein Joe Jacobson, Justice of the Peace of Tucson Precinct No. 4, Pima County, seeks a writ prohibiting the respondents from proceeding with the examination of the body of Andrew J. Wolfson, a deceased infant, and from further inquiry into the cause of said infants death. The petitioner alleges as grounds for the relief sought that the respondents, by reason of certain facts which will hereinafter be set forth, threaten to usurp the authority and jurisdiction of the petitioner and further, that they were acting or planning to act in excess of their jurisdiction and authority. It is the contention of petitioner that jurisdiction in the matter of the cause of death of the infant is solely in the petitioner as ex officio coroner of Precinct No. 4.