Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Ry. Co. v. Brous

Plaintiff is a foreign railroad corporation with terminal opposite the city of St. Louis, in which city it has an office and place of business. Defendant obtained judgment against it by default before a justice of the peace of Cass county for damages for failure to deliver a shipment of goods. Afterwards plaintiff instituted proceedings in the circuit court of that county by certiorari to set aside the judgment for lack of jurisdiction in the justice over the body of the plaintiff as defendant in the original ease. The trial court quashed the original judgment.

■ The justice issued a summons…