State Ex Rel. Pickett v. Cairns

Upon re-assignment this case has fallen to the lot of the writer. It was instituted in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, by the filing therein of an information in the nature of a quo warranto by the prosecuting attorney of said county at the relation of one James F. Pickett, who was therein described as ‘ ‘ a resident and taxpayer of said county and State, residing at No. 7442 Jefferson Street in Kansas City, Missouri, in Kaw Township.” It charged that respondent had intruded himself into the office of justice of the peace in and for Kaw Township, and was, and had been,…