State Ex Rel. Plank v. Koehr

HOLSTEIN, Judge.

In this case the Court addresses the circumstances under which a trial court may deny plaintiffs who have sued a corporation the right to require the corporation to designate a representative and thereafter take that representative’s deposition under Rule 57.03(b)(4). We conclude that in this case the trial court abused its discretion by quashing notices to take depositions. The preliminary order in prohibition is made absolute.

Relators are plaintiffs in three personal injury suits against Union Electric Company. All three suits arose out of injuries the relators allegedly…