Case Name: State of Missouri ex rel. Aldace Walker et al. v. Daniel Dillon, Judge of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis
Court: St. Louis Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1896-02-04
Citations: 65 Mo. App. 197
Docket Number: 
Parties: State of Missouri ex rel. Aldace Walker et al. v. Daniel Dillon, Judge of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis.
Judges: 
Reporter: Missouri Appeal Reports
Volume: 65
Pages: 197–198

Head Matter:
State of Missouri ex rel. Aldace Walker et al. v. Daniel Dillon, Judge of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis.
St. Louis Court of Appeals,
February 4, 1896.
Supervisory Control of the Circuit Courts by Original Writs: jurisdiction: amount involved. This court has superintending control by original writs over the proceedings of the circuit court in a cause, only when it would have jurisdiction of an appeal therein; and, for the purpose of determining such original jurisdiction prior to a judgment in the cause, the amount stated in the petition therein will, prima facie, he taken as the amount involved.
Original proceeding.
J. T. Woodruff and L. ,F. Parker for relator.
A. B. Taylor for respondent.

Opinion:
Bombauer, P. J.
The respondent demurs to the jurisdiction of the court, and we conclude that the demurrer is well taken.
The object of the writ is to compel the respondent to award a special venire for a jury to try a cause pending before him, in which the relators, as receivers of the St. Louis & San Francisco Bailway Company, are sued for damages by one Wm. Gruilkey. The damages in Gruilkey's petition are laid at $20,000.
As the cause has never been tried, the amount stated in the petition is, prima facie, the amount in volved. The jurisdiction of this court to entertain original remedial writs in any cause is, under the decision of the supreme court, to be determined by the ulterior inquiry, whether it would have appellate jurisdiction of the cause in which the remedial writ issued.
All the judges concurring, the demurrer is sustained and the writ is dismissed for want of jurisdiction.