State Ex Rel. Twiehaus v. Adolf

ROBERTSON, Judge.

This is an action in prohibition. Relator seeks to prohibit respondent trial judge from proceeding further in the underlying tort suit against him, under the doctrine of official immunity. We issued our provisional rule, and now make that rule absolute.

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Relator is the superintendent of the St. Louis Developmental Disabilities Treatment Center, a state facility operating within the Department of Mental Health. The underlying action seeks to recover damages from relator, among others, for the wrongful death of a patient in that facility. Plaintiffs are the parents of the…