State ex rel. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Williams
Supreme Court of Missouri
Prohibition. (1) The suit instituted by Circuit Attorney Jones in St. Louis is a mere subterfuge and a disguise for an attempt to defeat the decrees of the United States Court at Kansas City and to prevent the plaintiffs in those suits from realizing any benefit or advantage thereunder. The suit of State ex rel.
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Prohibition. (1) The suit instituted by Circuit Attorney Jones in St. Louis is a mere subterfuge and a disguise for an attempt to defeat the decrees of the United States Court at Kansas City and to prevent the plaintiffs in those suits from realizing any benefit or advantage thereunder. The suit of State ex rel. Jones v. Relators and other Companies, is not within the jurisdiction of the circuit court of the city of St. Louis and it is an abuse of the jurisdiction of that court for the respondent to retain jurisdiction over that case and to refuse to dismiss the same and discharge relators…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, J.
This is an original proceeding in this court to obtain a writ of prohibition to prevent the respondent from further entertaining jurisdiction of a certain injunction suit now pending in the circuit court of the city of St. Louis, over which he presides, wherein the State of Missouri at the relation of Seebert Gr. Jones, circuit attorney of the city of St. Louis, is plaintiff, and the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, the Wabash Railway Company, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company, the St. Louis and Western Railway Company, and various other railroads in the State of Missouri, are…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Ex Parte YoungSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
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- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. MinnesotaSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
- Havemeyer v. Superior CourtCalifornia Supreme Court · 1890
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- State ex rel. McEntee v. BrightSupreme Court of Missouri · 1909
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