State Ex Rel. Burns v. Shain

Relator, by an original action in this court, seeks to prohibit respondent as judge of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit from continuing in force a temporary injunction and to restrain him from proceeding against the relator for' contempt for the latter’s violation of the temporary writ. On November 14, 1921, the prosecuting attorney of Pettis County filed in the circuit court of that county a suit entitled, “The State of Missouri ex rel. Prosecuting Attorney, plaintiff, v. O. J. Burns, defendant, ’ ’ ih which .it was alleged that the defendant was the occupant and in charge of a building in…