State Ex Inf. Barrett v. Imhoff
Supreme Court of Missouri
Quo Warrant,o. (1) The order of the county- court is wholly insufficient and does not find that the petition referred to therein was signed by any person, but simply states that it was found “to contain over one hundred names of voters of Wright County.” Nor does it find that they were legal voters.
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Quo Warrant,o. (1) The order of the county- court is wholly insufficient and does not find that the petition referred to therein was signed by any person, but simply states that it was found “to contain over one hundred names of voters of Wright County.” Nor does it find that they were legal voters. (2) The county court is a court of statutory creation, of inferior jurisdiction, not proceeding according to the course of the common law, and all of the jurisdictional facts must appear on the face of the record, and in this matter it was acting under special statutory directions, which must be…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
This is an original action in the nature of an application for a-writ of quo warranto brought in this court to oust from office certain township officers of Wright County. The alleged invalidity in the proceedings of the county court which resulted in the adoption by the people of township organization in said county, is the basis of the action. Two grounds of invalidity are alleged: One, that the order of the court submitting the question to the people is insufficient in failing to show that the court found that a petition signed by more than one hundred voters of Wright County had been…
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