STATE EX REL. ST. LOUIS LAND CLEARANCE v. GODFREY

No. 34017.

471 S.W.2d 938 (1971)

STATE of Missouri, ex rel. ST. LOUIS LAND CLEARANCE FOR REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, Relator, v. The Honorable Michael F. GODFREY, Judge of the Circuit Court of The City of St. Louis, Missouri, Respondent.

St. Louis Court of Appeals, Missouri.

September 28, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irvin Dagen, Husch, Eppenberger, Donohue, Elson & Cornfeld by Shulamith Simon, St. Louis, for relator.

Kramer, Chused & Kramer, St. Louis, for respondent.


CLEMENS, Commissioner.

We granted a preliminary writ to prohibit the respondent judge from compelling the relator, as defendant below, to answer plaintiffs' interrogatories. The relator's primary objection was that the interrogatories would require "thousands of answers" and impose an undue burden on relator and therefore were oppressive. We summarize plaintiffs' lawsuit and interrogatories.

By their petition for damages plaintiffs Lorimer and Ruby Mathews...

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