State Ex Rel. C. H. Atkinson Paving Co. v. Aronson

Prohibition. C.H. Atkinson Paving Company, a foreign corporation, relator here, having its only place of business in Missouri in Livingston County and there served with process, questions the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis over its person in a cause therein pending entitled Eugene Schmidt et al. v. The City of St. Louis, a municipal corporation, C.H. Atkinson Paving Company et al. In said action plaintiffs seek $60,000 damages alleged to have been occasioned their real estate by reason of a change in the grade of an abutting street. Relator, appearing specially,…