State ex rel. Pettis County v. Sloan

LOWENSTEIN, Presiding Judge.

In this original proceeding in prohibition, the plaintiff, Pettis County, Missouri, by its prosecuting attorney, Stanley Cox, seeks to make absolute this court’s preliminary order to keep the defendant Judge Sloan from sustaining the motion of the individual county judges to disqualify Cox as attorney for the county in a suit against the county for services rendered pursuant to a contract.

On August 26,1981, Mid-Missouri Plumbing & Heating, Inc., of Sedalia, Missouri entered into a contract with Pettis County to install a new steam boiler in the courthouse. The…