State Ex Rel. St. Louis State Hospital v. Dowd

SIMON, Judge.

Relators, State of Missouri, St. Louis State Hospital, and Rebecca White, invoke sovereign immunity and official immunity seeking a writ of prohibition preventing respondent from exercising jurisdiction in the underlying action. Relators are defendants in the action filed by plaintiff, Donald Leonard Hopkins (Hopkins), alleging a dangerous condition of a paper shredder at a hospital, operated by the State of Missouri, which resulted in the loss of four fingers of his left hand.

In his amended petition, Hopkins alleged that he was a patient and part-time worker for the Work Therapy…