State Ex Rel. Missouri Electric Power Co. v. Allen

In this proceeding, which has recently come to the writer on reassignment, relator seeks by certiorari to quash the opinion of the Springfield Court of Appeals rendered in the case of Dr. J. C. B. Davis, Administrator of the Estate of Orville Butler, deceased, respondent, v. Missouri Electric Power Company, a corporation, appellant (relator here), reported in 88 S. W. (2d) 217.

The relator urges that the respondent judges had no jurisdiction to determine this cause because the constitutionality of Sections 7950 to 7956, both inclusive, Revised Statutes 1929, was directly involved. Said…