State ex rel. White v. Terte

WESTHUES, Judge.

This is a proceeding to prohibit the Honorable Ben Terte, a circuit judge of Jackson County, Missouri, from taking jurisdiction of two cases which originated in a magistrate court in Jackson County. A proceeding in prohibition was originally filed in the Kansas City Court of Appeals in each of the two cases. The cases were consolidated in that court. After a hearing, the court of appeals made permanent its alternative writ and directed the circuit judge to refrain from exercising jurisdiction over the two cases. The writ was made permanent on the theory that no appeals had…