Bast v. Ketchum

This is a proceeding brought originally before a justice of the peace, on Jan. 26, 1876, to recover rent and the possession of leased premises, under the Landlord and Tenant Act. The premises are described in the affidavit as “ a certain two-story brick building, situated and being No. 1505 Gratiot Street, in the Fourth Ward, in the city of St. Louis, St. Louis County,'” etc. The summons recites the tiling of *434an affidavit before “the undersigned, a justice of the peace within and for the county of St. Louis,” and commands the defendant to appear “ before the undersigned justice, at his office…