State ex rel. Benson v. Brooks

This cause comes here on appeal by the relator from a judgment of the circuit court of St. Louis county quashing an alternative writ of mandamus, on motion of respondent. - .

*621Briefly and generally stated, it appears from the statements in the petition, as set forth in said alternative writ, that a proceeding to compel one Victoria W. Carter to enter into a recognizance to keep the peace toward the people of the State and particularly toward the complainant,- this relator, was pending before respondent, a justice of the peace within and for Bonhomme township in the county of St. Louis, under…