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STATE EX REL. CHICAGO, R. I. & P. R. CO. v. RIEDERER

No. 55126.

454 S.W.2d 36 (1970)

STATE of Missouri at the relation of CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND AND PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, a Corporation, Relator, v. The Honorable Henry A. RIEDERER, Judge of Division One of the Circuit Court of Missouri, Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, Jackson County, at Kansas City, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

May 11, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thad C. McCanse, Bruce C. Houdek, James, McCanse & Larison, Kansas City, for relator.

Charles C. Moore, Glenn McCann, Knipmeyer, McCann & Millett, Kansas City, for respondent.

FINCH, Judge.

This is an original proceeding in mandamus which seeks to compel respondent judge to hear and determine on its merits a motion by which relator sought dismissal of a suit for damages on the basis of the equitable doctrine of forum non conveniens. We make our alternative writ peremptory.

One William Michael Scantlin on May 12, 1969, filed suit in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, seeking damages of $100,000 under the Federal...

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