State ex rel. Powell v. Shocklee
Supreme Court of Missouri
Certiorari. (1) The county court did not have power to order all the county officers, courts and public records removed from the county seat, and the record should be quashed. This contest has been before this court several times before.
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Certiorari. (1) The county court did not have power to order all the county officers, courts and public records removed from the county seat, and the record should be quashed. This contest has been before this court several times before. State ex rel. v. Elkins, 130 Mo. 9; State ex rel. v. White, 162 Mo. 533. (2) The county court has no power to select a temporary county seat, except in cases where the seat of justice shall have been destroyed by erosion of the banks of any river. The specification, of this particular cause by a familiar rule of construction excludes all others. R. S. 1909,…
1Opinion of the CourtKennish, J.
This is an original proceeding in this court by certiorari. The relators are assessed taxpaying citizens of Montgomery county and respondents are the judges of the county court of that county. The object and purpose of the proceeding is to have brought before this court and quashed the record of the county court of Montgomery county, made and entered at a regular term thereof on the 8th day of February, 1911, in the matter of the removal of certain records and offices from the town of Danville, the county seat of said county, to the city of Montgomery in said county. The writ of certiorari…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- State ex rel. Hamilton v. GuinotteSupreme Court of Missouri · 1900
- In re the Saline County Subscription, ThompsonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1869
- State ex rel. West v. Justices of the County CourtSupreme Court of Missouri · 1867
- St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. City of St. LouisSupreme Court of Missouri · 1887
- Tetherow v. Grundy County CourtSupreme Court of Missouri · 1845
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