St. L., I. M. & S. Railway Co. v. Barnes

The St. Louis,Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Co. applied to the circuit court of Nevada county for a certiorari to bring up and quash a judgment rendered against said road by Daniel O’Leary, a justice of the-peace of said county, in favor of R. J. Barnes, upon an open account. The writ was awarded, with temporary super-sedeas ; returned by the justice with a certified transcript of the proceedings'and judgment before him in the suit referred to in the writ; and o-n the hearing the court refused to quash the judgment, and in effect affirmed it, by dissolving the temporary supersedeas, and…