State ex rel. South Missouri Pine Lumber Co. v. Dearing

Prohibition. • The trial court, notwithstanding it found that there was no equity in the bill, had the undoubted power by its decree to preserve the status quo pending the appeal in order that irremediable injury might not be inflicted upon the plaintiff. It having been shown to the satisfaction of the court, and so found that the Crommers were insolvent, to leave them free to enforce the collection of the notes, the cancellation .of which was an important part of the relief sought in plaintiff’s bill, would operate as a practical denial of plaintiff’s right to an appeal. In making the order…