State ex rel. Williams v. Munton

This petition for a writ of prohibition/mandamus arises in a suit by Laura Williams (“Plaintiff’) against Cannonball Engineering, LLC (“Defendant Cannonball”) and Carol Eldred (“Defendant El-dred”) for the wrongful death of Jacob Dale Williams (“Decedent”). The issue in dispute is whether the trial court erred in granting Defendant Cannonball’s motion to compel authorizations for Decedent’s “prescription medications records” for the almost six-year period before his death.

In Plaintiffs petition for wrongful death filed in May 2016, Plaintiff alleged the following facts. Plaintiff and Decedent…