State ex rel. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Montegudo

Opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

The grounds on which relator seeks relief by certiorari are that the respondent rendered against it an absolutely null and void judgment for the non-appealable sum of twenty dollars in an action for damages, at the suit of Oharles F. Ratcliff for the killing of cattle, said judgment being null because same was rendered without a legal citation upon (the relator) as required by law, and without the cause having been fixed for trial.

The petition does not specify in what respect the citation is informal or illegal; and the transcript of the cause…