Campbell v. Preston

STORCKMAN, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing a cross-claim filed pursuant to Civil Rule 55.49, V.A.M.R. in an action to recover for the wrongful death of plaintiff’s wife, Edith S. Campbell, who died from the effects of a drug alleged to have been negligently prescribed and administered to her while she was a patient in St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City.

The sole defendant in the original petition was Albert Preston, Jr., a medical doctor who prescribed the drug. Thereafter, an amended petition was filed joining as defendants' William Bradley, an intern employed by…