State Ex Rel. Webb v. Satz

SEILER, Judge.

These two cases, which have been consolidated and were argued here on the same date, involve the question of the proper venue in an action involving only corporate defendants. More precisely, the question is whether the language of the final clause of § 508.040, RSMo 1969, authorizes suit to be filed in any county where at least one of the corporate defendants has an office or agent for the transaction of usual and customary business or whether the clause applies only to a county, if one can be found, where each of the several corporate defendants maintain such an office or…