Legal Opinion

Willits v. Peabody Coal Co.

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided April 9, 2013No. ED 98674PublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ROY L. RICHTER, Judge.

Patricia Parrott Willits, William G. Par-rott, Jr., and Donald Petrie (collectively, “Appellants”) appeal from the trial court’s judgment sustaining the Peabody Defendants’ 1 and Armstrong Defendants’2 Joint Motion to Dismiss and denying Appellants’ Motion for Summary Judgment. Finding Appellants failed to assert their constitutional arguments at the first opportunity available, we need not consider Appellants’ allegations of error absent a showing of plain error. Making no such showing, we thus decline to consider the merits of Appellants’ appeal, and affirm the trial…

2Cases cited31 opinions

  1. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. ChicagoSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
  2. Osborne v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
  3. Webb's Fabulous Pharmacies, Inc. v. BeckwithSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  4. Davis v. WechslerSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
  5. Smith v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 2013

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