State Ex Rel. Missouri Highway & Transportation Commission v. Appelquist

CROW, Judge.

This original proceeding in prohibition arises from a suit in which the parents of a young man fatally injured in a motor vehicle collision on a Missouri highway seek damages for his death. Defendants in that suit (“the underlying case”) are Forrest Nolen Lewis, driver of a “tractor-trailer unit” that collided with the vehicle occupied by the decedent, and National Oil & Supply Company, Inc., alleged employer of Lewis and owner of the unit he was driving.

Lewis and National Oil, as third-party plaintiffs, filed a third-party petition in the underlying case naming as third-party…