State Ex Rel. Anderson v. Roehrig

Prohibition. Following the filing of a return by respondent, Judge of the Circuit Court of Audrain County, to the provisional rule issued herein, relator moved for judgment on the pleadings. The facts set forth in the return are therefore to be taken as true. Many of them, however, have no bearing on the questions at issue between the parties in this proceeding and will therefore be ignored. The relevant facts are briefly these:

In the latter part of 1919 or the early part of 1920, relator, Ben M. Anderson, was claiming title to approximately 400 acres of accreted land lying along the Missouri…