State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. James

rMandamus. On petition of the State Highway Commission, relator, we issued our alternative writ requiring the respondent circuit judge to accept and exercise jurisdiction of all issues tendered in a condemnation suit filed by relator in his court, or to show cause Why he should not do so. Respondent made return and the cause is brought to issue by relator’s motion for judgment on the pleadings.

The petition filed by relator in the circuit court is in furtherance of a plan duly adopted by the Commission for the improvement of about six miles of Highway 40 in Jackson County, by the construction…