Wallis v. Mrs. Smith's Pie Co.

Elsijane T. Roy, Justice.

On the morning of December 30, 1973, appellants Thomas Jeff Wallis and his mother, Mary Ethel Wallis, residents of Berryville, Arkansas, were returning to their home from a trip to Ohio. While traveling west on Interstate Highway #44 at a point within the city limits of Rolla, Missouri, they were involved in a motor vehicle accident with a large tractor-trailer truck driven by William Howard Long, agent of Mrs. Smith’s Pie Company, The ultimate destination of the truck was Oklahoma. Long is a resident of Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Smith’s Pie Company is a foreign…