STATE EX REL. ALLEN v. BARKER

No. 60631.

581 S.W.2d 818 (1979)

STATE ex rel. John M. ALLEN, Relator, v. Honorable Charles V. BARKER, Judge, 30th Judicial Circuit, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

March 13, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard D. Bender, Honecker & Bender, Springfield, for relator.

David L. Smith, Douglas W. Greene, Greene, Cassity, Carnahan, Freeman & Greene, Kenneth H. Reid, Turner, Reid & Duncan, Ted Von Willer, Jr., Woolsey, Fisher, Whiteaker & Stenger, Springfield, for respondent.


SIMEONE, Judge.

This is an original proceeding in prohibition wherein relator, John M. Allen seeks to prohibit the respondent, Judge Charles V. Barker, from dismissing certain counts of a petition filed against several defendants for damages for alleged defamatory statements.

On March 16, 1977, relator, John M. Allen, a resident of Dallas County filed a petition for damages in that county against several defendants. The petition was in four counts. Count I...

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