State Ex Rel. Silverman v. Kirkwood

[ 334] Mandamus. Upon application of the relator (Minnie Silverman) we ordered this cause transferred here from the St. Louis Court of Appeals. The principal opinion of that court (230 S. W. (2d) 513) seems to hold that neither personal service in a foreign state of a writ of scire facias issued by the circuit court in the city of St. Louis (the court of the original judgment) nor constructive service of such writ by publication were sufficient to give the court of original judgment the jurisdiction of the person necessary-to revive a personal judgment against the original judgment debtor.

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