State Ex Rel. Nichols v. Fuller

WEIER, Commissioner.

By prohibition, relator Paul Nichols seeks to make absolute our writ denying respondent circuit judge the liberty to proceed further in a suit filed in the Circuit Court of Pike County. Only one issue is presented for decision. Does the “single-act” statute which gives our courts jurisdiction over nonresidents (Section 506.500, RSMo 1959, 1967 Supp., V.A.M.S.) apply retrospectively to causes of action which accrued .before the passage of the act or prospectively only? We find that the act does not contain any language which indicates that it was intended to apply only to…