State ex rel. Boeckler v. Thayer

This is an application for a mandamus to be directed to *541one of the judges of the St. Louis Circuit Court, commanding him to. permit an answer to be filed in a certain proceeding pending in that court. The issuing of the alternative writ was waived, and respondent demurs to the petition.

The petition sets out that the Missouri Pacific Railroad, on December 10, 1879, being then a corpor-ation, etc., filed in the clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of the Eighth Judicial circuit, a petition stating that it has become necessary for the purposes of 'the railroad, to acquire a public use in a…