State Ex Rel. Burns v. Whittington

RICHARD B. TEITELMAN, Judge.

Relator Rowe Burns seeks a writ of mandamus requiring the Circuit Court of St. Louis County to transfer her wrongful death case to the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis. This Court issued an alternative writ, and that writ is now made peremptory.

FACTS

On August 22, 2005, Alfred Burns filed a petition in the circuit court of the City of St. Louis alleging that he sustained personal injury and developed leukemia because of exposure to the Defendants’ benzene-containing products. The alleged exposure occurred in St. Louis County. On August 28, 2005, the General…