Willis

This is a petition for a writ of prohibition by Jack R. Willis against enforcement of an order made by respondent court directing the petitioner to answer certain interrogatories propounded by the defendant and real party in interest Ken Willis.

Petitioner (plaintiff) has presented us with an incomplete record. He has provided us with no copies of the at-issue pleadings in the case, nor with any of the minute orders made by the trial court, nor with any of his moving papers in opposition to the defendant’s motion to compel answers to the interrogatories. Defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s application for a writ of prohibition has been helpful in rectifying some of these deficiencies.

From the sparse record, we are able to distill that plaintiff Jack R. Willis and defendant Ken Willis are brothers, that each is an attorney and that they became associated in the practice of law in 1973. This relationship terminated in about mid-December of 1976, with acrimony over the financial claims each was making against the other. On March 15, 1977, after settlement negotiations had proven fruitless, plaintiff filed this action. By April 1978, plaintiffs third amended complaint…