Twentieth Judicial Circuit of State of Missouri v. Board of Commissioners

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING IN MANDAMUS

ROBERTSON, Judge.

The Circuit Court of the Twentieth Judicial Circuit filed a petition for mandamus in this Court, seeking our peremptory writ compelling the Franklin County Commission to pay salaries of juvenile office employees as submitted to the county in the circuit court’s budget estimates. We issued a preliminary order in mandamus to consider whether Franklin County’s failure to seek resolution of its disagreement with the circuit court’s budget estimate before the judicial finance commission, pursuant to section 50.640, RSMo 1994, established a…