State Ex Rel. Black v. Renner

Gertrude Black, a school teacher, brought a proceeding inmandamus against the directors of five common school districts in Clay County, Missouri, on March 29, 1939. She filed an amended petition in the cause on April 19, 1939.

The respondents, now defendants in error, on July 19, 1939, filed a pleading in which they treated the amended petition as an alternative writ of mandamus and moved the court to quash the writ for the reasons (1) the writ (petition) failed to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action; (2) that there was a misjoinder of parties respondent; (3) that the writ…