Weir Ex Rel. Weir v. Brune

BOTTLING, C.

Joseph L. Weir, Jr., and John Francis Weir, minors, by Mary J. Weir, their mother, as next friend, sued Paul F. Bruñe and Oscar P. Paulis, the owners and lessors of .a “tenement” for actual and punitive damages occasioned when the children were bitten by a rat. We have jurisdiction by reason of the amount involved.

' Plaintiffs state: “They were both bitten by the same rat, on the same occasion, while asleep in their mother’s first-floor flat on Butger street, in St. Louis.” The pleader drafted the amended petition (upon which the case is pending) in three alternative counts,…