State ex rel. Dobbins v. Sutterfield
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Reynolds Circuit Court. I. The motion to dismiss ought not to be sustained, because there is a final judgment of the Circuit Court of Reynolds County, Missouri, from which the plaintiffs in error have appealed.
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Error to Reynolds Circuit Court. I. The motion to dismiss ought not to be sustained, because there is a final judgment of the Circuit Court of Reynolds County, Missouri, from which the plaintiffs in error have appealed. The cases of Dunldin County vs. District Court, 23 Mo., 449, and the State vs. Lafayette County Court, 41 Mo., 221, and other cases decided by this court have no application, for the plaintiffs in error in the case at bar, are not asking for the remedy by a writ of mandamus, but for a review of an erroneous judgment of an inferior court, by the mode known to the law, and of…
1Opinion of the CourtNapton, Judge
Dobbins and three hundred other citizens of Eeynolds county, applied to the Circuit Court of that county for a mandamus on the county justices, to appoint commissioners to select a site whereon to locate the seat of justice.
To the writ, which was issued, the County Court returned that at the general election held on the 5th of Nov., 1872, the proposition to remove the seat of justice of Eeynolds county from its present location, did not receive “ two-thirds of the legally registered votes of Eeynolds county,” nor were two-thirds of the legal voter's of said county polled at said election as…
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