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85 Mo. App. 198

State ex rel. Daugherty v. Hickman

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided July 2, 1900

Missouri Court of Appeals · decided 1900-07-02

Original Proceeding. Plaintiffs haying an adequate remedy by certiorari the writ of prohibition should not issue. State ex rel. v. Bower-man, 40 Mo. App. 576;

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently May 1904

1 state decisions

Relies on Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Young · State ex rel. Reider v. Moniteau County Court · Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad v. Morton

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Writ denied · Decided 1900-07-02

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Per Curiam.

¶1— The respondents are justices of the county court of Jasper county in this state and the relators are citizens of Webb City — a city of the third class situate in said county. This is an original proceeding for a writ of prohibition to restrain said justices from issuing a certain dramshop license.

¶2The relators first made application to the judge of the circuit court of said county for the writ, which was refused; and thereupon an application was made by them to one of the judges of this court, and thereupon a preliminary writ was issued. A return to the writ has been made by respondents by which the facts alleged in the writ have been put in issue.

¶3We must decline to notice the issues thus made or the various questions of statutory construction which are supposed to arise therein, and which have been discussed in the *199briefs of counsel, for tbe reason that the ease presented is not one for prohibition. If the county court shall grant the license to keep the dramshop applied for and in doing so it shall act in excess of its jurisdiction, as the relators claim will be the case, then the remedy of certiorari will be open to them.

¶4It was declared in State ex rel. Griffith v. Bowerman, 40 Mo. App. 576, a case quite similar to this, that prohibition will not lie where there is an adequate remedy by certiorari in behalf of any'one who has any remedy at all. State ex rel. v. County Court, 45 Mo. App. 387; Moore v. Bailey, 8 Mo. App. 156; Railway v. Morton, 27 Mo. 318; Railway v. Young, 96 Mo. 39.

¶5It follows therefore that the preliminary writ was improyidently issued and it must accordingly be dismissed.

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