12 Mo. 166 | Mo. | 1848
delivered the opinion of the court.
McFarland and others -being commissioners under an act of the last
It is impossible to discover any principle on which the county court of Platte could have been made a party to the writ of error. The judgment of the circuit court itself shows the fruitlessness of the proceedings by writ of error; for after reversing the judgment of the county court, the parties are left just where they were before the writ was sued out, and the making of costs is the only effect of it.
When such consequences result from a procedure, it is obvious that it must be irregular. The action of the county court could in no sense ■ of the term be called a final judgment, such as will sustain a writ of error. The defects in the report or proceedings of the commissioners might have been obviated. A mandamus was obviously the proper proceeding to compel the county court to do its duty.
There being an error in the rendition of the judgment of the circuit court, and it appearing upon the record that it was unwarranted, by repeated decisions of this court, no motion was necessary in order to subject it to the revision of this court.
The other judges concurring, the judgment will be reversed.