State ex rel. Missouri Highway & Transportation Commission v. Hedspeth

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING IN PROHIBITION

CROW, Presiding Judge.

PRELIMINARY ORDER MADE ABSOLUTE

This original proceeding in prohibition arises from an action in the Associate Division of the Circuit Court of Carter County wherein Bill Helm sued the “Missouri Highway Commission” for damage to Helm’s truck, trailer and cargo. Helm averred the damage resulted from the negligence of the Commission’s employees in pulling Helm’s truck and trailer by means of a chain attached to a road grader after Helm’s truck and trailer had become stuck on a road the Commission was blacktopping in Carter County. According…