STEMMLER v. EINSTEIN

No. 45806.

297 S.W.2d 467 (1956)

George L. STEMMLER, Mrs. Conrad Sommer, C. B. Broussard, Frederick E. Busse, John F. X. Callanan, David M. Grant, Ralph A. Kinsella, Mel H. Krah, John J. Nally, Henry B. Pflager, William A. Webb and Frank L. G. Weiss, as Members of the Charter Board of Freeholders of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, Relators, v. Major B. EINSTEIN, as a Member of the Charter Board of Freeholders of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, and as the Chairman of the Committee on Employees, Supplies and Budget of the Charter Board of Freeholders, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied January 14, 1957.

Dissenting Opinion January 22, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richmond C. Coburn, Thomas L. Croft, William B. Eldridge, St. Louis, for relators.

Dan P. Reardon, Joseph G. Stewart, St. Louis, for respondent.


HOLLINGSWORTH, Judge.

This is an original proceeding in mandamus. Relators, being twelve of the members of a Board of (thirteen) Freeholders of the City of St. Louis elected to prepare and submit a new or revised charter to the qualified voters of said city, seek our peremptory writ commanding respondent Einstein, the remaining member of said Board and chairman of one of its committees, to approve and certify a voucher for the sum of $500 in payment of an allegedly...

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