Case ID: mo-app_119/html/0396-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BLAND, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE ex rel. HADLEY, Respondent, v. ADKINS et al., Appellants.
    St. Louis Court of Appeals,
    May 8, 1906.
    JURISDICTION: Revenue Law: Supreme Court. A cause involving the selection by tbe county court of a depository of tbe county’s fund involves a construction of tbe revenue laws of tbe State and the Court of Appeals is without jurisdiction to entertain tbe cause on appeal from tbe circuit court.
    Appeal from McDonald Circuit Court. — Hon. F. O. Johnston, Judge.
    Transferred to Supreme Court.
    
      Joseph 8. Long and James H. Pratt for appellant.
    
      Herbert 8. Hadley, Attorney-General, Jas. A. 8tnrges and O. B. Puckett for respondents.
   BLAND, P. J.

On the petition of the attorney-general, the circuit court of McDonald county issued its writ of certiorari commanding the defendants, justices of the county court of said county, to make return to the writ and sIioay by what authority they, as justices of said county court, had sélected and appointed the State Bank of Anderson, in said county, as the depository of the public funds of said county. In obedience to the command of the writ, defendants made their return, incorporating therein a duly authenticated copy of the proceedings of the McDonald County Court, resulting in the selection and appointment of the State Bank of Anderson as the depository of the public founds of the county, except the capital public school fund. On the hearing the proceedings of the county court were quashed by the circuit court, from which judgment defendants duly appealed.

It seems to us the case involves the construction of the revenue laws of the State. If so, this court is without jurisdiction to hear and determine the appeal (section 12, article 6, Constitution); therefore, the case is transferred to the Supreme Court.

All concur.