State Ex Rel. Cardinal Glennon Memorial Hospital for Children v. Gaertner

DONNELLY, Judge.

This is prohibition.

Deborah Lynn Burns, a minor, and her parents, Doyle Burns and Phyllis Burns, sued Cardinal Glennon Hospital for Children, Thomas E. Veeser, M.D., G. D. Searle and Company, and six “John Doe” physicians, for professional negligence, in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis. Cardinal Glennon Hospital filed a Separate Motion to Dismiss alleging, in part, that plaintiffs’ petition should be dismissed because of their failure to comply with Chapter 538, RSMo Supp. 1976, before filing their petition in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis. On November…