State ex rel. Hunt v. Grimm
Supreme Court of Missouri
Prohibition. (1) Action affecting the title to real estate must be brought in the State in which the lands are located. Brown on Jurisdiction, p. 131; Story on Conflict of Laws, p. 545. (2) Under the statute of Missouri and the decisions of this court, suits affecting the title to real estate must be brought not only in the State in which the lands are located, hut in the county in which they are located.
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Prohibition. (1) Action affecting the title to real estate must be brought in the State in which the lands are located. Brown on Jurisdiction, p. 131; Story on Conflict of Laws, p. 545. (2) Under the statute of Missouri and the decisions of this court, suits affecting the title to real estate must be brought not only in the State in which the lands are located, hut in the county in which they are located. Sec. 1753, R. S. 1909; Castleman v. Castleman, 184 Mo. 432; Ensworth v. Plolly, 33 Mo. 370; Keyte v. Plemmons, 28 Mo. 104; State ex rel. v. Muench, 225 Mo. 219. (3) If the circuit court of…
1Opinion of the CourtLeaves, J.
Action in prohibition, the purpose of which is to determine the right of Hon. Hugo Grimm, one of the judges of the circuit court of the city of St. Louis, to proceed further with a case pending in his court, entitled, Greer Real Estate & Investment Company, plaintiff, v. Daniel D. Hunt and Mabel R. Hunt, defendants.
In the case pending in the circuit court the plaintiff therein filed its amended petition. To this petition the defendants in that cause, relators here, filed a demurrer challenging the jurisdiction of that court, and said demurrer being overruled by the respondent *670in this cause,…
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