State Ex Rel. National Refining Co. v. Seehorn

This is an original proceeding in prohibition in this court, whereby relator, National Refining Company, a corporation, seeks to prohibit respondent, Honorable Thomas J. Seehorn, Judge of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, at Kansas City, presiding in Division 3 of said court, from proceeding with the trial of a cause pending in said court, growing out of the following facts, which appear from the pleadings:

August 8, 1934, A.H. Fawkes, as plaintiff, filed suit against relator and two others, seeking to recover $25,000 damages for the loss of the comfort, society and services of his wife,…