State ex rel. Goldman v. Missouri Workmen's Compensation Commission
Decision Date | 15 May 1930 |
Docket Number | 30278 |
Citation | 27 S.W.2d 1026,325 Mo. 153 |
Parties | The State ex rel. Irwin Goldman v. Missouri Workmen's Compensation Commission et al |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Motion to reconsider overruled.
Alroy S. Phillips for relator.
Stratton Shartel, Attorney-General, for respondents.
In Banc.
Relator filed in this court on the 19th day of March, 1930 his petition for an alternative writ of mandamus directed to the Missouri Workmen's Compensation Commission commanding it to certify to the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis certain records and documents relating to an award theretofore made to relator by said Commission and from which said award, because of its alleged inadequacy, he had appealed to said circuit court. The petition was denied under Rule 32. Relator now asks that our action in refusing the writ be reconsidered inasmuch as a like petition had been previously denied by the St. Louis Court of Appeals on the ground that it was without jurisdiction, and relator "now knoweth not where jurisdiction lies."
This court refused to issue the writ on the ground that an adequate remedy could be afforded "by application for such writ to a court having in that behalf concurrent jurisdiction," it being the opinion of the court that both the circuit court and the St. Louis Court of Appeals had the requisite jurisdiction. The Court of Appeals seems to have considered that a state officer is a party to the proceeding, and held that it was without jurisdiction on that ground. In this we think the learned court was in error. Section 58 of the Workmen's Compensation Act provides:
From the foregoing section it appears that the Commission may sue and be sued in its official name, and that it is in effect created a legal entity, a quasi corporation. It further appears that the Commission as such -- and not its individual members --...
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