State Ex Rel. Wesolich v. Goeke

CRANDALL, Presiding Judge.

Relator, Elizabeth S. Wesolich (wife), seeks a writ of prohibition to disqualify respondent, the Honorable Joseph Goeke III (judge), from proceeding in the case of Elizabeth S. Wesolich v. Robert J. Wesolich, No. 572022, a dissolution action pending in the Circuit Court of St. Louis Coun ty. On February 22, 1990, we issued our preliminary order in prohibition. We now make the writ of prohibition absolute.

“Prohibition is an independent proceeding to correct or prevent judicial proceedings that lack jurisdiction.” State ex rel. Raack v. Kohn, 720 S.W.2d 941, 943 (Mo.…