State ex rel. Illinois Farmers Insurance Co. v. Koehr

CARL R. GAERTNER, Judge.

Illinois Farmers Insurance Company (Illinois Farmers) seeks our writ prohibiting the respondent circuit judge from exercising jurisdiction over it in an action pending in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis. We now make our preliminary order in prohibition absolute.

Doretta Hamlett and Sonda Brown (plaintiffs) are residents of the State of Illinois. They instituted the underlying action in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis seeking to recover for alleged personal injuries sustained in an automobile collision which occurred in St. Louis County. Named as…