Monsanto Co. v. Parker

STEWART, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff, Monsanto Company, filed a petition in the trial court seeking to have eighty-five litigants, individuals and corporations, who had actions pending against it “interplead their respective claims for punitive damages against Plaintiff Monsanto Company.” The trial court dismissed plaintiff’s petition.

We affirm but for a reason other than that given by the trial court.

The eighty-five claims arise out of a spill of toxic chemicals that occurred in the derailment of a Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W) tank car in Boone County, Missouri and the clean-up of the…