State Ex Rel. Cummings v. Witthaus

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CONKLING, J.

We here have before ns a problem under the discovery section of our new Civil Code respecting production of documents for inspection and copying. Mo. R. S. A. § 847.86, Section 86, Civil Code of Missouri, Laws of Missouri, 1943, page 356. This action is an .original proceeding in prohibition instituted by relators, Charles Henry Cummings and Standard Generator Service Warehouse, Inc., challenging the jurisdiction of the respondent, Judge Witthaus, as circuit judge, to enter the order for inspection of documents set out infra, in a case pending before him wherein one Nellie…