State Ex Rel. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway v. Hall

Prohibition to restrain respondent judges from entertaining further jurisdiction in an action brought in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis by one John W. Cannon, a resident of Tennessee, as plaintiff, and against relator as defendant, wherein plaintiff seeks to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained while a passenger on one of relator’s trains in the State of Tennessee. Relator here, by motion to quash the sheriff’s return (appearing specially and for the limited purpose thereof), challenged the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis…