State ex rel. Gardiner v. Wurdeman

ALLEN, J. —

This is an original proceeding in this court, in prohibition, the object thereof being to prohibit the respondent, lion. Gustavus A. 'Wurdeman, Judge of Division No. 2 of the circuit court of the county of St. Louis, from proceeding further with a certain matter pending before said court, upon the ground that respondent, as such judge, is therein undertaking to act in excess of his jurisdiction in the premises.

On June 9, 1915, the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company filed a motion in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of St. Louis county, which was assigned to said…