State Ex Rel. Mills Automatic Merchandising Corp. v. Hogan

This case, which comes to the writer on reassignment, is an original proceeding in prohibition which was instituted in this court at the relation of Mills Automatic Merchandising Corporation, one of the defendants in a cause now pending in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis.

The sole issue in the case is that of whether the sheriff's return to the writ of summons is sufficient on its face to show valid service upon relator, a foreign corporation, so as to have subjected it to the jurisdiction of the local court.

The manner in which a summons shall be served upon a foreign corporation is…