State ex rel. Circuit Attorney v. County Court
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Saline Circuit Court. I. The Circuit Attorney has no authority to proceed in the name of the State in this case. (State vs. Parkville and Grand River R. R. Co., 32 Mo., 196; Atty. Gen. vs. Utica Ins. Co., 2 Johns.
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Appeal from Saline Circuit Court. I. The Circuit Attorney has no authority to proceed in the name of the State in this case. (State vs. Parkville and Grand River R. R. Co., 32 Mo., 196; Atty. Gen. vs. Utica Ins. Co., 2 Johns. Ch., 371; see also, People vs. Miner, 2 Lansing, 396.) In this last case, tne doctrine is fully reviewed, the cases of Davis & Palmer vs. The Mayor, &c., 2 Duer., 663, and of Doolittle vs. The Supervisors, 18 N. Y., 162, referred to by tlie counsel for the Respondent, are referred to, and tbe Court holds that in such a case as the one before the Court the State is not a…
1Opinion of the Court
Shepley, Special Judge,
delivered the opinion of the Court
This is an action brought in the name of the State, by the *361Circuit Attorney of the Sixth Judicial circuit, against the County Court of Saline county and its judges and the Collector of Saline county, to restrain the County Court and its officers from issuing bonds to the Missouri and Louisiana Railroad Company, or any county warrants, in payment of their subscriptions to the capital stock of that company, and from the levying or collecting any taxes for the purpose of paying such bonds or the coupons thereon or such warrants.
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