State ex rel. St. Louis v. Edwards

WELLIVER, Judge.

This is an original proceeding in the nature of quo warranto instituted by the St. Louis County Supervisor and the acting Director of Welfare of St. Louis County, Missouri, against the circuit judges of the 21st Judicial Circuit. Relators seek to oust respondents from usurping relators’ alleged authority to control “all children’s buildings, all places of detention and correction for children, and other County child welfare institutions,” and to “provide for such personnel in both the administration and detention departments of the Juvenile Court of St. Louis County under the…