Smith v. Overhead Door Corp.

SPINDEN, Judge.

Before Frank C. Smith and his wife could get their personal injury suit to trial, they lost all of their defendants. They first sued Consumers Market in Clinton after the market’s automatic doors closed on Smith on July 11, 1984, and injured him. They sued only Consumers on October 25, 1985, under a general theory of landowner’s liability, but Consumers later implead-ed Overhead Door Corporation, Harding Glass Company of Warrensburg, Builders Glass and Products Company and Door Closure Service.

The Smiths did name Overhead Door and Door Closure as additional defendants to their…