Mashak v. Poelker

STORCKMAN, Judge.

This is a declaratory judgment action in which the plaintiff attacks the validity of the employment of an administrative assistant for the judge of the juvenile division of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis. All of the regular circuit judges having disqualified themselves, the Honorable Sam C. Blair presiding as a special judge found the issues against the plaintiff and held the creation of the position to be lawfully authorized. The plaintiff appealed and the St. Louis Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the circuit court and remanded the cause with directions…