State ex rel. Walbridge v. Valliant
Supreme Court of Missouri
Certiorari. (1) The writ of certiorari was properly issued in this case. It is a writ issuing from the supreme court to an inferior court, or officer exercising judicial powers, whose proceedings are summary, commanding the latter to return the records of a cause depending before it to the superior court. 3 Am. and Eng.
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Certiorari. (1) The writ of certiorari was properly issued in this case. It is a writ issuing from the supreme court to an inferior court, or officer exercising judicial powers, whose proceedings are summary, commanding the latter to return the records of a cause depending before it to the superior court. 3 Am. and Eng. Encyclopedia of Law, p. 60. It usually issues in cases only where the proceedings of the inferior court are summary and not according to the course of the common law. Tidd’s Pr., 379; Farmington River, etc., v. Gou/nty Commissioners, 112 Mass. 206; Lynch v. Crosby, 134 Mass.…
1Opinion of the CourtMacfarlane, J.
— A writ of certiorari was issued from this court to respondent, as judge of the circuit court of the city of St. Louis, requiring him to send up the records and proceedings in the case of State ex rel. Reid v. Walbridge then pending before him. In obedience to said writ the records have been filed in this court.
It appears from the records that charges had been preferred before Walbridge, as mayor, against Greorge B. Reid, as commissioner of public buildings of the city of St. Louis, which had been heard and determined by him on the thirty-first day of January, 1894. That proceeding resulted…
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