Missouri · statute · Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 531 · 6 active provisions
In case any person shall usurp, intrude into or unlawfully hold or execute any office or franchise, the attorney general of the state, or any circuit or prosecuting attorney of the county in which the action is commenced, shall exhibit to the circuit court, or other court having concurrent jurisdiction therewith in civ…
The relator shall be named as such, in the information against such person usurping, intruding into or unlawfully holding or executing any such office or franchise, and shall proceed thereon in such manner as is usual in cases of information in the nature of a quo warranto.
If it shall appear to such court that the several rights of divers persons to the same office or franchise may properly be determined on one information, the said court may give leave to exhibit one information against several persons, to try their respective rights to such office or franchise.
Such person, against whom an information in the nature of a quo warranto shall be prosecuted, shall appear and answer at the same term in which the same information shall be filed, unless the court shall give further time; and such person prosecuting such information shall proceed thereupon with the most convenient spe…
In case any person, against whom any such information in the nature of a quo warranto shall be prosecuted, shall be adjudged guilty of any usurpation of, or intrusion into, or unlawfully holding and executing any office or franchise, it may be lawful for the court as well to give judgment of ouster against such person…
The court in which any information shall be exhibited shall allow to the relator and the defendant such convenient time to answer, reply or make a motion as shall seem just and reasonable.