State Ex Rel. Banner Loan Co. v. Landwehr

Relators filed in this court their petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the respondent, a judge of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, to hear and determine a certain suit in equity filed in said court and assigned to the division over which he presided. An alternative writ issued and respondent filed his return. The relators filed a reply and motion for judgment.

This is a companion case to State ex rel. Bertha E. Ford et al. v. Hogan, ante, page 1130, No. 29,851, currently decided. The facts are similar.

The pleadings develop that, in 1926, Bertha E. Ford was granted a divorce…