State Ex Rel. Adler v. Douglas

Prohibition: Relator seeks to prohibit the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis from further'proceeding with a certain cause pending in that court. On filing of relators5' petition we-issued our provisional rule in prohibition. Respondents demurred to relators’ petition and moved to discharge the provisional rule. The. demurrer and motion being overruled, the cause was docketed for hearing and has been orally argued and submitted.

The facts giving rise to this controversy are, in substance, as follows :

The cause pending in the circuit court, the trial of which relators seek to prohibit, is a…