State ex rel. Miller's Mutual Insurance Ass'n of Illinois v. Sanders

FINCH, Judge.

This is a consolidation of two original proceedings in prohibition which seek to prevent respondent from taking any further action in two cases filed in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis.1 The basis of relator’s contention is that under § 508.-040,2 the applicable venue statute, venue in these two cases does not lie in the City of St. Louis and respondent should have sustained relator’s motions to dismiss for lack of venue. We now make permanent the provisional rule in prohibition heretofore issued, prohibition being an appropriate remedy where venue is improper. State…