State ex rel. King v. Gill
Supreme Court of Missouri
Mandamus. This is an application for a mandamus to compel the transfer of a certain cause to the supreme court. It grows out of the following facts: Mrs. King (now the relator) brought an action in 1889, against her husband, in the circuit court of Saline county, and, upon various grounds, prayed a divorce, custody of her' minor children, and “that the court adjudge to her, out of the property of her said husband, such support and maintenance for herself and her said four…
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Mandamus. This is an application for a mandamus to compel the transfer of a certain cause to the supreme court. It grows out of the following facts: Mrs. King (now the relator) brought an action in 1889, against her husband, in the circuit court of Saline county, and, upon various grounds, prayed a divorce, custody of her' minor children, and “that the court adjudge to her, out of the property of her said husband, such support and maintenance for herself and her said four minor children, and such sum for the prosecution of her said suit, and for such time, as the nature of the case and the…
1Opinion of the CourtBarclay, J.
By mandamus the relator seeks to require defendants, as judges of the Kansas City court of appeals, to transfer a cause to this court. They entertained and adjudicated the appeal from the circuit court, which relator, as plaintiff in the action, took and submitted to them. She did not discover, until after an adverse decision, any imperfection in that court’s power to deal with her case. Now the claim is made on her behalf that the “amount in dispute'” in» the action exceeds $2,500, and that, consequently, the court of appeals had no power to hear or determine the same.
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