State Ex Rel. Memmel v. Mundy

In point of time or place, the respondents’ petition for declaratory relief is a caboose added to an already long freight train. However, we consider first that petition for declaratory relief for the reasons that (1) a declaration of rights is an appropriate vehicle for an exercise of the superintending control over inferior courts, constitutionally granted to this court, 1 and involved in the determinations here made; and (2) such petition deals with future pro cedures to be followed — the major concerns of the parties here involved.

Additionally, the appeal here is only of the circuit court…