State Ex Rel. Gerber v. Mayfield

[295] Relator filed a petition in this court asking that the respondent Waldo C. Mayfield, Judge of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, be prohibited from assuming jurisdiction of a case filed in his court under the style of William Sinders and Genevieve Sinders, -Plaintiffs, vs. Clyde Bradley, Marlyij Leroy Holliday, and Cecil Gilbert Gerber, Defendants,

The facts out of which the case arose were as follows: On April 3, 1954, a Mercury automobile collided with a tractor-trailer truck on U. S. Highway 66 in Pulaski County, Missouri. Beverly Joan Sinders, a minor daughter of…