State ex rel. Spradling v. Bondurant

ORIGINAL PETITION FOR WRIT OF PROHIBITION

Before DIXON, C. J., and SHAN-GLER, PRITCHARD, SWOFFORD, WASSERSTROM and SOMERVILLE, JJ. DIXON, Chief Judge.

Relators, the Attorney General of Missouri and the Director of Revenue of Missouri, are seeking to prohibit respondent from further proceeding, or attempting to exercise jurisdiction, in a declaratory judgment action pending in the Circuit Court of Jackson County.

The facts, essential to a ruling and undisputed, are as follows: Andrew Douglas, plaintiff in the action below, filed a petition in respondent’s court for a declaratory judgment alleging…