State Ex Rel. Keith v. Wright

This is an original proceeding in prohibition. Preliminary writ was issued, the recitals of which will hereinafter be stated.

The material facts pleaded in the relator's petition and admitted in the respondent's return are as follows: That respondent Honorable EMORY H. WRIGHT is and was at all of the times mentioned in the petition the duly elected, qualified and acting judge of Division Number One of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri; that on October 23, 1933, the relator commenced an action for divorce against his wife, Vandette Keith, in the Circuit Court of said Jackson County;…