Gale v. Michie

It appears that the plaintiff had recovered judgment against defendants in the Gasconade Circuit Court, upon which judgment execution was issued, and the defendants presented their motion to quash the execution, upon the ground that the judgment was void, as having been rendered without jurisdiction over the persons of defendants and in thoir absence. The plaintiff was the judge of said Circuit Court, and when the motion came up for hearing he called upon Hon. T. M. Rice, judge of the First Circuit, to preside and hear the motion, to which the defendants objected, upon the ground that the…