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Criminal Law: Venue-Transfer
Staff Report//October 7, 2019//
Where a county 911 dispatch sued the director of revenue in Jefferson County seeking a declaration about the meaning of statutory subsections in a dispute regarding the collection and calculation of prepaid wireless emergency-service charges, and the director sought a change of venue to Cole County, Section 508.010.2 applies so venue is proper where the defendant resides or where the plaintiff resides and the defendant may be found, and as an executive department head, the director resides in Cole County, so the underlying case is transferred to Cole County.
Preliminary writ made permanent.
State ex rel. Kenneth Zellers v. Stacey (MLW No. 73995/Case No. SC97787 – 6 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, per curiam) Original proceeding in prohibition (Alyssa M. Mayer, Kansas City, Missouri, and Ross A. Kaplan and Christopher R. Wray, Jefferson City, for the director) (Allison Sweeney and Robert K. Sweeney, Hillsboro, for the county dispatch).
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