University of Missouri School of Law Scholarship Repository
Abstract
The concepts of venue and jurisdiction carry independent and severable meanings. Venue means the place where a case is to be tried, while jurisdiction speaks to the power of the court to hear and determine a case In Missouri, a unique melding of the concepts developed. A line of cases commingling venue and personal jurisdiction yielded strange and often unduly harsh results.\u27 In State ex rel. DePaul Health Center v. Mummert,6 the Missouri Supreme Court attempted to sever venue and jurisdiction, and finally restore some common sense and predictability to sixty plus years of confusion
