Opinion

State ex rel. Auto Finance Co. v. Collins

  • 496 S.W.2d 827
  • 1973 Mo. LEXIS 761
Court
Supreme Court of Missouri
Filed
Jul 16, 1973
Status
Published
Author
Henley
On the bench
Bardgett, Donnelly, Finch, Henley, Holman, Morgan, Seiler
Cited by
4 cases
Authority
More cited than 20.5%

The opinion

HENLEY, Judge

(concurring in result).

I agree that the judgment of the circuit court must be reversed and the cause remanded with directions that the judgment of the magistrate court be quashed; hence, I concur, but the concurrence is limited to that result.

The concurrence is so limited, because I have the view that the principal opinion in reaching this result has considered matters beyond the question of whether the magistrate had jurisdiction, matters the trial court could not consider because not cognizable in certiorari; that the principal opinion has thus expanded unnecessarily the narrow and limited scope of review traditionally afforded by this extraordinary writ.

Furthermore, I have the view that the holding that the magistrate had jurisdiction to quash the garnishment is inconsistent with the result reached, because if the magistrate had such jurisdiction then the garnishee had the right to appeal from the order quashing the garnishment. In that situation certiorari would not lie. In State ex rel. Palmer et al. v. Elliff, 332 Mo. 229 , 58 S.W.2d 283, 286 [4, 5] (1933), the court said: “Certiorari cannot be used as a substitute for appeal * * * and where the inferior tribunal has jurisdiction and its action can be reviewed by appeal * * *, certiorari will not lie.” An order quashing a writ of garnishment is a final judgment from which an appeal may be taken. Flynn v. First National Safe Deposit Company, 284 S.W.2d 593, 596 [6] (Mo.1955). Where certiorari does not lie, all that can be done by the court which issued that writ is to refuse to quash the record of the magistrate. State ex rel. St. Louis County v. Evans, 346 Mo. 209 , 139 S.W.2d 967 (Mo. banc 1940).

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