State ex rel. Evans v. Broaddus
Supreme Court of Missouri
Certiorari. (1) Tlie respondents were without authority to interrupt by mandamus the right of relator to have the cause of his detention inquired into by habeas corpus. The writ of habeas corpus is a high prerogative writ, known to the common law, the great object of which is the liberation of those who may be imprisoned without sufficient cause.
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Certiorari. (1) Tlie respondents were without authority to interrupt by mandamus the right of relator to have the cause of his detention inquired into by habeas corpus. The writ of habeas corpus is a high prerogative writ, known to the common law, the great object of which is the liberation of those who may be imprisoned without sufficient cause. Ex parte Watkins, 28 U. S. 193; People v. Liscomb, 60 N. Y. 559; In re Dill, 32 Kan. 668. The writ of habeas corpus is an immediate remedy for every illegal imprisonment. Comm. v. Brower, 9 Kulp. (Pa.) 317; Comm. v. Lecky, 1 Watts, 67; People v.…
1Opinion of the CourtLamm, J.
— Original proceeding. Certiorari to quash a record. Respondents, our brethren of the Kansas City Court of Appeals, file return setting forth all the pleas, proceedings, briefs and entries in a certain mandamus suit, and this cause is submitted on respondents ’ motion to quash the writ.. Marshaling the facts, they follow, viz.:
In April, 1911, one Bressman, adjudged of unsound mind, brought suit in the Buchanan Circuit Court through Gibson, his guardian, against the St. Joseph Railway, Light, Heat and Power Company, for damages for'alleged injuries received while a passenger on one of said…
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