STATE EX REL. STENBERG v. NELSON

No. 12030.

486 P.2d 870 (1971)

STATE of Montana ex rel. Ivar STENBERG, Petitioner and Relator, v. Robert J. NELSON, District Judge of the Eighth Judicial District of the State of Montana In and For the County of Cascade, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Montana.

Decided May 27, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emmet T. Walsh (argued) Seattle, Wash., for petitioner and relator.

Jardine, Stephenson, Blewett & Weaver, John D. Stephenson, Jr. (argued), Great Falls, Poore, McKenzie & Roth, James A. Poore, Jr. (argued), Butte, Gough, Booth, Shanahan & Johnson, Ward A. Shanahan, (argued), Helena, for respondents.


HASWELL, Justice.

This is an application for a writ of prohibition or other appropriate relief by petitioner Ivar Stenberg from an order of the district court of Cascade County severing his medical malpractice suit against several doctors into three separate cases.

Petitioner here is the plaintiff in a medical malpractice action now pending in the district court of Cascade County against five physicians. Petitioner was injured in a mine accident in June 1963...

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