State ex rel. Grimes v. Appelquist

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING IN PROHIBITION

TITUS, Presiding Judge.

This is an original proceeding in prohibition wherein our preliminary rule was issued and the matter is now before us for final determination. Civil Rule 97.1 The relator, Melvin Grimes, is pastor of the Washington Avenue Baptist Church, Springfield, Missouri. The respondent is the judge of Division 2, Thirty-first Judicial Circuit, Greene County, Missouri. Linda Margaret Carr, petitioner in the case below, resides in Springfield as does relator. This action involves the question of whether respondent acted in excess of his jurisdiction…