James E. Chance v. Atchison

Relator, the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission seeks writs of prohibition and mandamus directed at prohibiting Greene County Circuit Judge Anderson from issuing two subpoenas duces tecum to relators two land appraisers. The Court of Appeals, Southern District, issued preliminary writs which were quashed by opinion. We transferred the case to examine the existing law. Mo. Const. art. V, § 10. We make the alternative writ of mandamus peremptory and the preliminary writ of prohibition absolute. We have borrowed extensively from the Dissenting opinion filed by Flanigan, J., in the Court of Appeals, Southern District.