STATE, EX REL. ANDERSON v. Nixon

PATRICIA BRECKENRIDGE, Judge.

Layne Anderson filed a petition for writ of prohibition seeking to prohibit the Honorable W. Stephen Nixon, a circuit judge, from taking any further action in the underlying case other than to dismiss the application for trial de novo filed by the defendant, Robert Morris, d/b/a MJM Au-toSales. Mr. Anderson claims that Mr. Morris is not entitled to a trial de novo because the judgment for damages entered in favor of Mr. Anderson and against Mr. Morris by the associate circuit judge was not a default judgment but, rather, was a judgment in a contested case. This…