State ex rel. Weigman v. Moentmann

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING IN PROHIBITION

LAURA DENVIR STITH, Judge.

Karla Kay Weigman filed a petition for dissolution of marriage in Platte County. At her attorney’s request, the clerk issued a summons and delivered it to counsel for Petitioner. So far as the record shows, no attempt was made to serve the summons on Ms. Weigman’s husband, James Robert MacDonald, before it expired 30 days later. The month after the summons expired, Mr. MacDonald filed his own petition for dissolution of marriage in Ray County and arranged for service. Ms. Weigman thereafter obtained a new summons in the Platte County…