State Ex Rel. Muth v. Buzard

This is an original proceeding in prohibition to prohibit the respondent as judge of the circuit court of Jackson County, Missouri, at Kansas City, from sustaining a motion in the nature of a writ of error coram nobis, thereby vacating a judgment which set aside the will of Conrad H. Mann in the case of Emma Mann v. Margaret V. NaPier et al. There was no motion for a new trial and no appeal was taken in that case, and it is relators’ .contention that respondent is without judicial power to set aside the judgment. Respondent in his return denies that the judgment is valid for the reason the…