State ex rel. Bohannon v. Adolf

CARL R. GAERTNER, Presiding Judge.

Relator, plaintiff below, seeks our writ of prohibition to prevent respondent’s enforcement of his order sustaining defendant’s motion to dismiss for improper venue. We have issued a preliminary rule and now make it absolute.

In the underlying lawsuit relator, by and through his mother as next friend, seeks to recover for injuries sustained when he fell into a swimming pool located on property owned by defendant. The allegations in the petition which would support venue in the City of St. Louis are that defendant owned the improved real property at 704 Kaywood…