State Ex Rel. City of St. Louis v. Sartorius

This is an orginal proceeding in mandamus to compel the respondents, judges of the Circuit Court of the City of St.Louis, to reinstate the relator’s motion for a new trial in the case of The City of St. Louis v. Central Institute for the Leaf et al., No. 207079-B, pending in Division 18 of that court and to rule on the same by either sustaining or overruling it.

In that case the City of St. Louis sought to condemn for public use, under Chapter XXI of the Charter of that city, parcels of land, including a lot owned by the defendants, Russell Egan, Elizabeth Egan and Patrick Egan. On July 22,…