State v. Stevens

The relators, Charles E. Thomas and Charles H. Proetz, allege that they were stockholders in, and officers of, the Oalion Land and Lumber Company, a Missouri. corporation, now dissolved, and they filed their petition here for a writ of prohibition to prevent the chancery court of Columbia County from proceeding against said corporation in a certain action pending in that court, instituted by the plaintiffs therein, who are the heirs at law of I. F. Langston, deceased.

The pleadings in the chancery court are. set forth in extenso in the petition filed in this court, and it appears therefrom…