Shelter Mutual Insurance Co. v. Briggs

RENDLEN, Judge.

This cause was transferred after opinion by the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District that we might decide whether a tort claimant who was made party defendant to the insurer’s separately filed declaratory judgment action has standing to appeal from a judgment adverse to the insured when the insured did not pursue an appeal. Determining the cause as on original appeal, Mo. Const, art. V, § 10, we answer this question in the affirmative and retransfer to the court of appeals with instructions.

The cause arises from the collision of two boats on the Lake of the Ozarks on…