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MORLEY v. RYAN

No. 54980.

461 S.W.2d 7 (1970)

Robert E. MORLEY, Plaintiff-Respondent, William S. Diuguid, Plaintiff In Intervention-Respondent, v. J. Brendan RYAN, Circuit Attorney of the City of St. Louis, and John C. Danforth, Attorney General of the State of Missouri, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

December 14, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Grant, St. Louis, for respondent William S. Diuguid.

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., Louren R. Wood, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for appellant John C. Danforth, Attorney General.

J. Brendan Ryan, Circuit Atty., Daniel R. Devereaux, Arthur Friedman, St. Louis, for appellant J. Brendan Ryan.

PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

This is a suit for declaratory judgment in which the two plaintiff magistrates asked for a ruling that § 482.040, Subd. 2, RSMo 1959, V.A.M.S. (which requires that in counties having more than one magistrate district the magistrate shall be a resident of the district in which he is elected), be declared unconstitutional as contravening Art. V, § 25, Const. Mo. 1945, V.A.M. S.

Magistrate Morley filed the suit after which Magistrate...

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