STATE v. TERTE

No. 45919.

303 S.W.2d 123 (1957)

STATE ex rel. E. W. WHITE, Relator, v. The Honorable Ben TERTE, Judge of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, Respondent. STATE ex rel. Lynn JOYCE, Relator, v. The Honorable Ben TERTE, Judge of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri. En Banc.

June 10, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clif Langsdale and Gibson Langsdale, Kansas City, for relators.

George H. Charno, Sr., Watson, Ess, Marshall & Enggas and Melvin J. Spencer, Kansas City, for respondent.


WESTHUES, Judge.

This is a proceeding to prohibit the Honorable Ben Terte, a circuit judge of Jackson County, Missouri, from taking jurisdiction of two cases which originated in a magistrate court in Jackson County. A proceeding in prohibition was originally filed in the Kansas City Court of Appeals in each of the two cases. The cases were consolidated in that court. After a hearing, the court of appeals made permanent its alternative writ and directed the circuit...

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