State Ex Rel. Schnuck Markets, Inc. v. Koehr

LIMBAUGH, Judge.

This is an original proceeding in mandamus in which relator, Schnuck Markets, Inc., seeks to compel respondents, Judge Jack L. Koehr of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis and Judge Kenneth M. Romines of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, to transfer the case styled Perez v. Schnuck Markets, Inc., from the City of St. Louis to St. Louis County. The petition for writ of mandamus was originally filed in the Court of Appeals, Eastern District, where it was summarily denied. We then issued our preliminary writ, which we now make absolute.

At issue is whether a judge,…