State v. Weeks
Decision Date | 19 December 1887 |
Parties | STATE ex rel. SHARP v. WEEKS et al., Judges, etc. |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
McReynolds & Halliburton, Harding & Buller, and W. T. Green, for petitioner. W. M. Robinson, for respondent.
This is an original proceeding in this court, its object being to compel the county court of Jasper county to issue a license to the relator, Sharp, to keep a saloon in the city of Carthage.
1. The alternative writ of mandamus was issued by a member of this court in vacation, returnable to this term. A motion, based on that ground, has been filed to quash the writ. The statute authorizes a judge of this court to issue such a writ in vacation. Rev. St. § 3254. This statutory provision does not impinge upon section 3 of article 6 of state constitution. If, however, such a writ should be issued in manner as aforesaid, and the judges of this court should determine that it had been improvidently issued, this might result in the writ being quashed; but this result would not follow merely because the writ was issued in vacation. The motion to quash, in this instance, is therefore denied.
2. The return of the respondents set forth, among other things, that, ...
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