American National Property & Casualty Co. v. Wyatt

JOSEPH M. ELLIS, Judge.

On August 16, 2010, Joyce Bentley drove her granddaughter, Megan Wyatt, and Megan’s friend, Robin Ferguson, to her apartment at 103 N.E. Dogwood Street in Oak Grove, Missouri, for an overnight visit. Bentley parked her car in the garage, shut the garage door, and went inside, neglecting to turn off the car engine. Later that day, responding to a call from a neighbor about a suspicious odor, police entered the house and found Bentley and Ferguson unconscious and Wyatt dead from carbon monoxide inhalation. Bentley later died at the hospital.

Megan’s father subsequently…