State ex rel. Gladfelter v. Lewis

SHANGLER, Judge.

The relators Gladfelter appeal from the adverse judgment on their petition for mandamus to command the Director of the Jackson County Office of the Division of Family Services [the respondent Lewis] to disclose certain official records. The circuit court determined that suit, although nominally against the local office, was to give effect to a regulation promulgated by the Missouri Division of Family Services, and so was actually against an executive department head of the State. On that premise, the court adjudged that venue lay properly in Cole County and dismissed the…