State Ex Rel. Earnest v. Meriwether

HOLLINGSWORTH, Judge.

This is an original proceeding to prohibit Honorable Roy B. Meriwether, Judge of the Hannibal Court of Common Pleas, from ordering a change of venue from that court to the Circuit Court of Schuyler County of two petitions seeking the adoption of Sandra Lee Greenwood, a female minor; and to prohibit the Clerk of the Hannibal Court of Common Pleas from transmitting the records in said cases to said Circuit Court.

The relators, William R. Earnest and Maude Earnest, are Sandra’s maternal grandparents. Sandra is the child of Irene (Earnest) Greenwood and her husband, Guy…