STATE EX REL. ST. LOUIS STATE HOSP. v. DOWD

No. 68488.

908 S.W.2d 738 (1995)

STATE of Missouri, ex rel., ST. LOUIS STATE HOSPITAL, and Rebecca White, Relators, v. The Honorable James R. DOWD, Presiding Judge of the Circuit Court of St. Louis City, Missouri—Division 1, Respondent.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Five.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied September 25, 1995.

Application to Transfer Denied November 21, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Christine A. Alsop, Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Louis, for relators.

Terry A. Bond, Vines, Frankel, Rubin, Bond & Dubin, P.C., Clayton, for respondent.


Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Denied September 25, 1995.

SIMON, Judge.

Relators, State of Missouri, St. Louis State Hospital, and Rebecca White, invoke sovereign immunity and official immunity seeking a writ of prohibition preventing respondent from exercising jurisdiction in the underlying action. Relators are defendants in the action filed by plaintiff, Donald Leonard Hopkins (Hopkins), alleging a dangerous condition of a paper shredder...

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