Koehler v. Snider
Supreme Court of Missouri
Prohibition. (1) The petition of the bridge company for injunction against the Terminal Railroad Company et al. had been filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of Cape Girardeau county, as provided by law, before its presentation to relator as judge of the probate court.
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Prohibition. (1) The petition of the bridge company for injunction against the Terminal Railroad Company et al. had been filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of Cape Girardeau county, as provided by law, before its presentation to relator as judge of the probate court. (2) All of the defendants resided in Cape Girardeau county and the circuit court of that county had jurisdiction, notwithstanding the fact that the land sought to be condemned by the bridge company was situated in Scott county. Injunction operates in personam. High on Inj., p. 2, sec. 1. (3) In the vacation of…
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STATEMENT.
FOX, J.
On the 12th day of May, 1902, after filing its petition in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of Cape Girardeau county, the Southern Illinois *550and Missouri Bridge Company, a corporation created under the laws of the State of Illinois for the purpose of constructing and maintaining a bridge across the Mississippi river under the provisions of an act of Congress authorizing the construction thereof from a point in Alexander county, Illinois, to a point in Scott county, Missouri, and duly licensed to do business in the State of Missouri, made application to relator,…
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