Leroy Stanfield v. Harold R. Swenson, Warden, Missouri State Penitentiary

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• joining a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and a claim for damages in one case even though “obviously the second cause of action was entirely dependent upon appellant’s success in the first cause of action”
• “When used in the statutes the word ‘shall’ is generally regarded as an imperative or mandatory and therefore one which must be given a compulsory meaning.”

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