State Ex Rel. Green v. Neill

RICHARD B. TEITELMAN, Judge.

Relators (defendants in a medical malpractice claim) seek a writ of prohibition barring Respondent from taking any further action other than transferring the underlying case to a proper venue. Relators argue that fellow defendant Malaika Horne, Ph.D., a member of the board of curators of the University of Missouri and resident of the City of St. Louis at the time the petition was filed, was joined pretensively so that plaintiffs could obtain venue in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis.

Plaintiffs failed to state a cause of action against Curator Horne.…