State ex rel. Connors v. Shelton
Supreme Court of Missouri
Prohibition. (1) Persons performing labor and doing work upon railroads have a lien thereon on the roadbed, station houses, depots, bridges, rolling stock, real estate, and improvements of such railroad. Sec. 8249, R. S. 1909. (2) Where the remedy by appeal is inadequate or not sufficiently speedy, the writ of prohibition is the proper remedy. State ex rel. v. Denton, 128 Mo. App. 314; State ex rel. v.'Allen, 45 Mo.
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Prohibition. (1) Persons performing labor and doing work upon railroads have a lien thereon on the roadbed, station houses, depots, bridges, rolling stock, real estate, and improvements of such railroad. Sec. 8249, R. S. 1909. (2) Where the remedy by appeal is inadequate or not sufficiently speedy, the writ of prohibition is the proper remedy. State ex rel. v. Denton, 128 Mo. App. 314; State ex rel. v.'Allen, 45 Mo. App. 557; State ex rel. v. Eby, 170 Mo. 497; State ex rel. v. Cline, 85 Mo. App. 628'; State ex rel. v. Port, 107 Mo. App. 328; State ex rel. v. Guinotte, 156 Mo. 527 ; 23 Am. &…
1Opinion of the CourtLamm, J.
Prohibition. Relators are M. O. Connors and William Nuttall, doing business in railroad contracting under the firm name and style of M. C. Connors & Company. Respondents are the Hon. Nat M. Shelton, Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit of Missouri, and John C. Mills, receiver of the Hannibal and Northern Missouri Railroad Company, hereinafter called the Company.
This cause is submitted on the bare pleadings. There is no evidence, no formal demurrer to the returns and no motion for judgment. The situation is *286this: On the filing of the petition we passed, and had served, a peliminary rule to…
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- Nolan v. JohnsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1891
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- Ashton v. PenfieldSupreme Court of Missouri · 1911
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