State Ex Rel. Linthicum v. Calvin

I join in Judge Stith’s opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part. I also join in Judge White’s dissenting opinion.

*859I write separately to suggest that the St. Louis city-county venue maneuvers, which have accounted for much of our case law on this subject, be ended by merging the jury pools in the city and county. If litigants were to get the same jury whether they are in the city or county, they would get juries more broadly representative of the St. Louis community, and the question of venue would be of much less importance.

Venue in Missouri is solely a function of statute, as the…