Case ID: mo_48/html/0196-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Holmes, Judge,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John A. Hookaday et al., Petitioners, v. Harvey Newsom et al., Defendants. 
    
    1. Prohibition, application for writ of against County Court — When court acts in ministerial capacity, refused. — When it appears from the pleadings, in an application for a writ of prohibition against a County Court; that the proceedings which the petitioners seek to restrain belong exclusively to the administrative and ministerial duties of that court, and do not involve any exercise of the jurisdiction of the court in its judicial capacity, the application will be refused. (West v. Clark County Court, 41 Mo. 44, affirmed.)
    
      Petition for Prohibition.
    
    
      John JÍ. Hoekaday, for petitioners.
    
      H. C. Hayden, for defendants.
    
      
       This case was decided at the July term, 1868, and properly belongs with the eases of that term, reported in 42 Mo.
    
   Holmes, Judge,

delivered tbe opinion of the court.

This is an application for a writ of prohibition to be issued against the defendants as justices of the County Court of Cal-laway county. The defendants appear, and make answer admitting the facts stated in the petition. There is no exemplification of the record of the proceedings of the County Court in the matter complained of. From the statements of the petition, admitted by the answer, it appears that the proceedings which the petitioners seek to restrain belong exclusively to the administrative and ministerial duties of the County Court, and do not involve any exercise of the jurisdiction of the court in its judicial capacity. In such case a prohibition will not be granted. This subject was fully considered in the case of West v. Clark County Court, 41 Mo. 44, and the decision in that case is decisive of this application.

Prohibition refused.

Judge Wagner concurs. Judge Fagg not sitting.