State ex rel. American Family Mutual Insurance v. Koehr

CRANDALL, Presiding Judge.

Relator, American Family Mutual Insurance Company, seeks a writ of prohibition to prevent respondent, the Honorable Jack L. Koehr, from proceeding in the case of Laura Etrula Higginbottom v. Christopher Pike, et al., No. 912-07523, an action for damages for bodily injury pending in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis. On February 24, 1992, we issued our preliminary order in prohibition. We now make the writ of prohibition absolute.

The record on appeal is sparse. By way of background, Laura Etrula Higginbottom and her son, Joseph Higginbottom (son), originally…