State Ex Rel. Dean v. Douglas

— This is an original proceeding in mandamus to compel the respondent, as clerk of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, to pay oyer to relator, out of a fund or deposit held by said-clerk in a condemnation suit, the sum of $1000 found by the court to be due relator.

The undisputed facts as disclosed by the petition for the writ and return thereto are as follows:

At the September Term, 1941, of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, the City of Ladue filed an action to condemn several parcels of land formerly owned by Campbell Glenn, deceased.

The property involved in the suit had been devised…