State ex rel. Cameron Mutual Insurance Co. v. Koehr

AHRENS, Judge.

Relator, Cameron Mutual Insurance Company, seeks a writ preventing respondent, a Judge in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, from exercising jurisdiction in the underlying action and requiring respondent to vacate his order overruling relator’s motion to dismiss for improper venue. Prohibition is an appropriate remedy where venue is improper. State ex rel. Miller’s Mut. Ins. Ass’n v. Sanders, 538 S.W.2d 708 (Mo. banc 1976). Our preliminary order in prohibition is made absolute.

Relator is the defendant in a lawsuit filed in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis by…