State ex rel. Tolliver v. Board of Public Service

CLEMENS, Commissioner.

St. Louis City’s Board of Public Service revoked Relator’s billiard parlor license. The Circuit Court granted certiorari and the Board made its return showing revocation on the strength of a petition signed by neighborhood residents. Upon considering the Board’s return the Circuit Court quashed it and set aside the revocation. The Board appeals.

The function of certiorari is to bring a lower tribunal’s record before a superior court and the writ’s object is to keep the lower tribunal within the ambit of its jurisdiction; the superior court determines the jurisdictional…