Blecker v. St. Louis Law Commissioner

This is an application for a rule on the law commissioner to show cause why a mandamus should not issue against him requiring him to reinstate on the docket of his court an appeal from a justice’s court which had been dismissed.

The suit was for rent, and was originally brought before a justice of the peace, from whose judgment an appeal was taken to the law commissioner’s court, where it was dismissed for the reason that the commissioner was of the opinion that the appeal should have been taken to the land court. By law all appeals from justices of the peace are to be heard in the court of…