State Ex Rel. McMullin v. Satz

BILLINGS, Chief Justice.

Original action in prohibition to challenge the jurisdiction of the court of appeals to award sanctions after it dismissed the case. The Court concludes that the court of appeals acted in excess of jurisdiction and that its award of sanctions was a nullity. Preliminary writ in prohibition made absolute.

Relator, Charles B. McMullin, was the attorney for plaintiff Marian B. Sherrill in an equity action in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis. Judgment at trial was entered in favor of the defendants. Following trial, plaintiff, by telephone and in writing, did on…