STATE v. HENSLEY

No. 31003.

358 S.W.2d 85 (1962)

STATE of Missouri ex rel. Eve MELETIO, Executrix Under the Will of G. William Meletio, Deceased, Relator, v. David R. HENSLEY, Judge of the Probate Court of St. Louis County, State of Missouri, Respondent.

St. Louis Court of Appeals, Missouri.

June 12, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pollock, Ward, Klobasa & Shaw, T. Hartley Pollock, John A. Shaw, William E. Buckley, Douglas B. Remmers, St. Louis, for relator.

Chapman, Schwartz, Chapman & Kroening, Adolph K. Schwartz, Peter R. Viviano, St. Louis, for respondent.


DOERNER, Commissioner.

This is an original proceeding in prohibition. Relator seeks to restrain the respondent, Judge of the Probate Court of St. Louis County, Missouri, from exercising jurisdiction of the issues presented by a petition filed by The Meletio Company, a corporation, in the Estate of G. William Meletio, deceased.

The essential facts are these: On April 7, 1959, G. William Meletio and John H. Meletio, who owned or controlled the majority of the...

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