Northcutt

These are the facts shown, among others, by the petition for a writ of prohibition in this proceeding: One Myrna P. Sprague filed in respondent court her complaint against petitioner, which complaint was later superseded by an amended complaint, filed November 3., 1923. The latter pleading alleges in part that the plaintiff “in the action, to whom we shall hereafter refer as the plaintiff, and the petitioner in this proceeding, whom we shall hereafter designate as petitioner, were wife and husband for a number of years prior to August 8, 1919; that during the subsistence of the marriage relation between the plaintiff and petitioner there were born to them two girls and a boy, the girls being, at the time of the filing of the pleading, of the ages, respectively, of eleven and eight, and the boy then being of the age of five; that on August 8, 1919, a court in a certain county in Wisconsin, in which county the plaintiff and petitioner then resided, rendered its decree of divorce in an action in which petitioner was plaintiff and the plaintiff was defendant; that by the decree the care and custody of the daughters resulting from the marriage was awarded to petitioner and the care and…