State ex rel. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Mummert

CRANE, Presiding Judge.

Relator, E.I. du Pont De Nemours and Company, Inc. (du Pont), seeks a writ of prohibition barring respondent, the Honorable Thomas C. Mummert, III, from proceeding with a personal injury and products liability action in the City of St. Louis, denominated Clark et al. v. E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Inc. et al., on the ground that plaintiffs improperly acquired venue in the City of St. Louis by pretensively joining an individual, John H. Carson as a defendant. Because a cause of action remains against another individual defendant, even though the petition was…