State Ex Rel. Pulliam v. Swink

Upon application of respondent, this original proceeding in prohibition was transferred to this court from the Court of Appeals, St. Louis District, after the filing of an opinion therein. The cause has been re-argued and submitted in this court, and we approve and adopt as our own the opinion heretofore written by Smith, J., which, without the use of quotation marks, is as follows:

Relator seeks to have us make permanent our preliminary writ prohibiting respondent from striking relator’s answer in a personal injury suit, because of relator’s refusal to answer questions at a deposition on the…