State ex rel. Kirn v. O'Hallaron

The relator, George C. Kirn, was sned before R. C. Grier, a justice of the peace in the fourth justice’s district, St. Louis, Missouri, by W. S. Lawrence, a physician, upon an account for medical services in the sum of forty dollars. Relator filed an affidavit in said court setting up the statutory ground of prejudice of said Justice Grier, and prayed for a change of venue on account of such prejudice. Instead of said justice transmitting the papers to the other justice in the same district, he sent them to Anthony A. O’Hallaron, one of the two justices in the fifth justice’s district in said…