State Ex Rel. Deere and Company v. Pinnell

MORGAN, Judge.

In this original proceeding, relators ask that we prohibit respondent circuit judge from acting in a manner alleged to be in excess of his jurisdiction. The challenge, specifically, is directed toward the court’s order that relators answer certain interrogatories, but it is based on relators’ assertion that the “single act” long-arm statutes of this state are unconstitutional. Sections 351.633 and 506.500, RSMo 1959, V.A. M.S.

Relators, two foreign corporations unlicensed in this state, were, with others, named as defendants in a suit filed in Barry County for damages resulting…