Ralph D'Oench Co. v. St. Louis County Cleaning & Dyeing Co.

[610]

TIPTON, P. J.

The petition in this case, in the nature of an interplea, was filed in the circuit court of St. Louis County and was assigned to division three of that court. The appellants Peter W. Ranft and Lydia Ranft and respondents St. Louis County Cleaning and Dyeing Company and Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Company were made defendants. After tbe pleadings were closed the plaintiff-respondent filed a motion for a judgment on the pleadings which was sustained. A judgment was entered against appellants on the theory that the issues had been determined in a prior suit in another case…