State ex inf. Ryan ex rel. Cross v. Bond

FINCH, Judge.

This is an appeal from the action of the trial court in dismissing an information in the nature of quo warranto on the basis that Donald T. Cross and Harold M. Light, at whose relation the information was filed by the circuit attorney for the City of St. Louis, did not have such special or peculiar interest in the matter to give them standing to maintain the action. We have exclusive appellate jurisdiction on the basis that title of respondents to an “office under this state” is involved. Mo.Const. art. V, § 3; State ex inf. Mitchell ex rel. Goodman v. Heath, 345 Mo. 226, 132…