State Ex Rel. Willman v. Sloan

SEILER, Judge.

This is an original action in prohibition. Relator asks us to prohibit respondent Sloan from empaneling a jury to determine the damages, if any, petitioner suffered as a result of breach of a covenant not to compete by defendant below.

The case is before Judge Sloan on remand from this court, Willman v. Beheler, 489 S.W.2d 770 (Mo.1973). In Willman, this court ruled in favor of relator in his suit to enjoin defendant Beheler from breach of his covenant not to compete with plaintiff Willman, his former medical partner, within a twenty-mile radius of St. Joseph, Missouri for a…