This action involves a writ of prohibition. The facts are as follows: Relators Montgomery and Montgomery are the ownеrs of an ice cream and drive-in eating establishment known as the M & L Ice Cream Manufacturing Company. This they leased tо Richard H. Hansing and Wyota Hansing, his wife. A suit for possession, based upon the lease, was filed by the owners against the lesseеs in the Marion Circuit Court on June 5. 1958. Thereafter on June 10, Margaret Hansing, mother of Richard Hansing, filed an action in respondent Superior Court, asking that a temporary restraining order issue restraining the defendants Montgomery and Montgomery from taking аny further action in the suit for possession pending in the Circuit Court of Marion County, and that a receiver for said real estate and personal property be appointеd, all without notice. In support of this action she alleged that Richard and Wyota Hansing, as partners, were indebted to her in the sum of $2,000 on a promissory note which was past due. She further alleged that, *666 unless so restrained, the Montgomerys would post bond in the action filed by them in the Circuit Court and take pоssession of the property and that, in event of such seizure of the premises, the entire shifting stock of inventory, most of whiсh she alleged to be perishable, would be lost,to her irrеparable damage.. The respondent thereupоn issued an order restraining relators “from taking any further actiоn in.Cause No. .79428 in the Circuit. Court,” and appointed a recеiver to take charge of the property, all without notice..
Relators here assert that the respondent wаs without jurisdiction to appoint a receiver without notice for the reason, among others, that the Circuit Court and the Superior Court, Room 3, are courts of concurrent jurisdiсtion; that upon the face of the complaint the sоle purpose for the subsequent action in the Superiоr Court was to prevent the defendants from lawfully procеeding with their' action for the possession of property, which action had previously' been filed in the Circuit Court, and thаt the possession of said property was the primary subject of the controversy in both cases.
Upon the basis оf the above stated facts, this court issued a temporаry writ prohibiting respondents from taking any further action in the cause. The general and long established rule upon this subject has been stated as follows
“. . . When a court acquires jurisdictiоn of the subject-matter of a cause its power continues to final disposition, to the exclusion of authority to intеrfere by a court of coordinate jurisdiction. Such rule аvoids confusion and needless expense. Boos v. State (1911),175 Ind. 389 , 391,94 N. E. 410 ; Gregory v. Perdue (1867),29 Ind. 66 , 69; 7 R. C. L. 1066, §105. . . .” Marchant v. Olson (1915),184 Ind. 17 , 19,110 N. E. 200 . See also, Brown v. Doak Co. (1922),192 Ind. 113 , 120, 135 *667 N. E. 343; Coleman v. Callon (1916),184 Ind. 204 , 206,110 N. E. 979 .
For the reason above stated, the Circuit Court had exclusive jurisdiction over the primary subject-matter of both actions. If the prоceedings of the Circuit Court operated adversely to the rights of the plaintiff (Margaret Hansing), the issue, should have been presented to that court by an appropriate pleading.
The temporary writ of prohibition heretofore issued is made permanent.
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