State ex rel. Dennis v. Snodgrass

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING IN PROHIBITION

Dixon, Chief Judge.

We consider the propriety of making absolute our preliminary writ of prohibition addressed to respondents as Magistrate and Circuit Judge of Moniteau County.

The parties have briefed and argued many complex questions against a complicated factual background. Dispositive of all issues, since its resolution requires that the writ be made absolute, is the determination that venue does not exist in Moni-teau County.

From the pleadings in this prohibition action, the petition and “answer” accepted by us as a return, the voluminous exhibits, and…