State ex rel. Speer v. Grimm

Relator filed a Petition for Writ of Prohibition requesting us to issue a Writ of Prohibition “commanding respondent (Circuit Judge) to dismiss said action, sustain the Motion for Summary Judgment, and to refrain from proceeding further herein. . ” We issued a preliminary writ on July 26, 1979. We did so improvidently and we hereby quash the preliminary writ.

In the Circuit Court of Cape Girardeau County, Plaintiff filed a petition for damages against both relator and Robert Dole, d/b/a Jungle Jim Memorial Pet Shop, alleging that the two were general partners. Plaintiff alleged that he…