State ex rel. City of Jackson v. Grimm

RENDLEN, Judge.

By mandamus, relator City of Jackson would require respondent, Judge of the Circuit Court of Cape Girardeau County, to permit relator’s intervention in a declaratory judgment suit filed by the City of Cape Girardeau under the Sawyer Act1 against Jesse C. Rutherford, et al., inhabitants of a tract of land the City of Cape Girardeau seeks to annex. In response to our alternative writ, respondent filed return contesting relator’s right to intervene and urging that our alternative writ be quashed.

The City of Jackson contends it may intervene in Cape Girardeau’s annexation action as…