Appellant, A. B. Robinson, appeals from an order of the Lonoke Chancery Court finding him guilty of contempt of court and the assessment of a fine of $50 and- three days in jail. Appellant is a justice of the peace in the city of Cabot. The city council filed suit in Robinson’s justice of the peace court to collect privilege taxes assessed under City Ordinance No. 96. Previously in the Mayor’s court of the city of Cabot it was held that Ordinance No. 96 is discriminatory and unconstitutional. Appellee herein, Henry Morgan, filed in chancery court a “Petition for Declaratory Judgment under Provisions of Acts of 1953, Act 274”. The petition alleges:
“5. On the 12th day of June, 1957, the defendants acting individually and collectively as the City Council of the City of Cabot, through their attorney, Kenneth Coffelt, filed suit in A. B. Robinson’s Justice of the Peace Court seeking to collect the assessment or tax by civil action under Ordinance No. 96 after the said Ordinance *1092had been held nneonstitntional and unenforceable by the said Mayor’s Court.”
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“8. As there is no other adequate remedy at law a declaratory judgment, under the provisions of Act 274 of the Acts of Arkansas of 1953, should be entered setting forth the rights of the parties and until the final hearing and entry of the judgment all parties should be restrained from taking any action upon the ordinance in question.”
Summons was issued directed to A. B. Bobinson individually and as justice of the peace of York Township, and to the various members of the city council. The petition was filed on July 3, 1957, and on the same day the chancery court issued a temporary restraining order enjoining the city of Cabot, members of the city council, and A. B. Bobinson personally and as justice of the peace, from taking any action against Morgan or other persons as residents of the city of Cabot until all the rights and status of the parties are determined by the court. It is not shown that Bobinson as an individual did anything in connection with the case, but as justice of the peace he did proceed to hold court on July 9th and rendered judgment against Morgan and other residents of the city of Cabot in violation of the restraining order. The principal issue, and the only one we reach, is whether the chancery court had jurisdiction to enjoin the justice of the peace from proceeding with the trial of the cases against Morgan and others.
At this point it might be well to point out that ap-pellee, Morgan, attempts to sustain the order of the chancellor finding the justice of the peace guilty of contempt solely on the asserted ground that the chancery court has jurisdiction under the declaratory judgment statute (Act 274 of the Acts of 1953). It is not contended that the petition for a declaratory judgment is in effect a petition for prohibition, or that the petition should be treated as a petition for prohibition. In fact, the petition for a declaratory judgment filed in the chancery court does not allege that the justice of the *1093peace does not have jurisdiction of the parties or the subject matter, hut merely alleges that City Ordinance No. 96 is void.
And while on the subject of prohibition, we might add that although Ark. Stat. § 33-101 gives the chancery court jurisdiction to issue writs of prohibition to inferior courts, § 33-105 provides for notice to the officer or person against whom relief is sought. And § 33-107 gives the party against whom the writ is sought the right to file an answer and show cause why the writ should not be granted. Here it is not contended that notice sufficient to give the chancery court jurisdiction to issue prohibition was served on the justice of the peace.
Now we come to the question of the validity of the order finding the justice of the peace to be in contempt of chancery court by reason of proceeding with the matter pending in the justice of the peace court. If the chancery court was without jurisdiction to enjoin the justice of the peace from proceeding with the cases pending in the justice of the peace court, then the order of injunction is void and the chancery court is without jurisdiction to punish the justice of the peace for proceeding with the trial. Willeford, et al v. State ex rel. etc., 43 Ark. 62; Morgan v. State, 154 Ark. 273, 242 S. W. 384; Martin v. State, 162 Ark. 282, 257 S. W. 752; Pitcock v. State, 91 Ark. 527, 121 S. W. 742.
No case has been called to our attention, nor have we found any authority, for the proposition that one court can enjoin another court from proceeding in a matter pending in such other court; the great weight of authority appears to be to the contrary. In Daniels v. City of Portland, 124 Ore. 677, 265 P. 790, 59 A. L. R. 512, the court said: ‘ ‘ Our attention has been called to the fact that W. A. Ekwall, judge of the municipal court of the city of Portland, has been made a party defendant hereto. That a court of equity has not power to enjoin the judge of another court, see High on Injunctions, 4th ed. § 46.” And in this work (High on Injunctions, 4th ed., § 46) it is said: “And a court of equity is devoid of jurisdic*1094tion to grant an injunction against tire judge of another court to restrain him from acting in or making orders in a particular cause. Every judge is supreme and independent in his own sphere, and can not be restrained in the discharge of his functions by the process of injunction.” See, also, 21 C. J. S. § 498.
Nor does our declaratory judgment law- authorize one court to enjoin another. Our statute is patterned after the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for Declaratory Judgments. It is said in Anderson on Declaratory Judgments, 2nd ed., Vol. 1, p. 836: “It is necessary for the plaintiff to make out a case for injunction in as sure and ample a manner as if the injunction were sought alone, and it is likewise true that the plaintiff must show himself to be entitled to a declaratory judgment in same manner as if such declaration were the only relief sought.”
Here the appellee has not shown that he was entitled to the injunction. The mere fact that he sought a declaratory judgment in addition to an injunction did not give the court jurisdiction to grant the injunction. Our conclusion is that the chancery court was without jurisdiction to enjoin the justice of the peace from proceeding with the trial of the case pending in the justice of the peace court, and, therefore, the chancery court is without jurisdiction to punish the justice of the peace for contempt in proceeding with the pending litigation.
Reversed and the citation for contempt dismissed.
McFaddin, J., dissents.