State Ex Rel. Trimble v. Ryan

ORIGINAL PROCEEDING IN PROHIBITION

RENDLEN, Judge.

Relators seek to prohibit enforcement of respondent’s order striking the ad damnum clause from their wrongful death petition and restricting their claim against defendant Bi-State Development Agency (Bi-State) to $100,000.00.

In their petition for damages, relators, the parents and wife of dlecedent James Trimble, alleged that on September 21, 1986, Trimble sustained fatal injuries when riding in a car that collided with a Bi-State bus operated by James McKenney, an employee of Bi-State. Further, they alleged the collision resulted from the bus…