State Ex Rel. Upjohn Co. v. Dalton

CARL R. GAERTNER, Presiding Judge.

This is an action in prohibition brought by defendant in the underlying case, Upjohn Company, (hereinafter relator), challenging respondent the Honorable Donald Dalton’s order requiring relator to produce documents and answer interrogatories. We issued a preliminary writ, which we now make absolute.

Plaintiffs, the wife and children of Joseph Beer, brought suit in the Circuit Court of St. Charles County against relator and others. Plaintiffs allege that Joe Beer’s suicide was induced by a delirium produced by the drug Halcion which was manufactured by relator…