State ex rel. University Bank v. Blair

STORCKMAN, Judge. This is an original proceeding for mandamus instituted upon the petition of the relator, University Bank of Kansas City, against the respondent, Sam C. Blair, as judge of the Circuit'Court of Cole County, Missouri, “to the end that said Respondent be directed to hear and determine the cause pending before it on the merits of said cause.” The cause referred to was a writ for the judicial review of a decision of the board of bank appeals. An appeal was also taken to this court from the action of the court in quashing the writ. The appeal, being cause No. 44,843, entitled, State ex rel. Rouveyrol v. Donnelly, was consolidated for argument with this mandamus proceeding. The decision in the case on appeal decided contemporaneously herewith 285 S.W.2d 669, disposes of the issues in this case. Reference is made to the opinion in the appeal case for the facts arid the grounds of the decision. This- case is. distinguishable from decisions cited by the relator bank in that a judgment from which an appeal could be taken was rendered by the trial court in this case. .The circuit court did not' limit the issues and appears from the record to •have conducted a full hearing, although the basis of its decision was that neither the relator bank nor the commissioner of finance was lawfully authorized to prosecute the proceedings for judicial review. We have affirmed that judgment and it is decisive of this mandamus action. The remedy by appeal was adequate to secure the only ruling which could be made. The general rule is that mandamus will not lie if a specific and adequate remedy by appeal exists. State ex rel. Howe v. Hughes, 343 Mo. 827, 123 S.W.2d 105. The alternative writ issued herein' should be quashed, and the peremptory writ denied. It is so ordered. All concur.