STATE EX REL. STUFFLEBAM v. APPELQUIST

No. 13940.

694 S.W.2d 882 (1985)

STATE of Missouri, ex rel. Robert E. STUFFLEBAM, M.D., and Internal Medicine Associates of Springfield, Inc., Relators, v. The Honorable J.A. APPELQUIST, Judge of the Circuit Court of Greene County, Missouri, Division 2, Respondent.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Division Two.

Motion for Rehearing or to Transfer Denied July 19, 1985.

Application to Transfer Denied September 10, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Freeman, C. Bradford Cantwell, Freeman, Fredrick, Bennett, Rogers & Cantwell, P.C., Springfield, for relators.

Donald E. Woody, Monte P. Clithero, Daniel Schelp, Taylor, Stafford & Woody, Springfield, for respondent.


FLANIGAN, Judge.

The issue in this prohibition proceeding is: Are the attorneys for Robert E. Stufflebam, M.D., a defendant in the underlying medical malpractice action, entitled to obtain, by court order, an authorization from Gene Tefertiller, plaintiff in the malpractice action, permitting them to interview privately Dr. C. Norman Shealy, who is a physician who treated Tefertiller for the injuries which Tefertiller alleges were caused by Dr. Stufflebam,...

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