Allstate Insurance Co. v. Woepke

DOERNER, Commissioner.

This case arose out of a collision between an automobile owned and driven by Phillip Nelson, and a motor bus of the St. Louis Public Service Company being operated by its employee, Ralph Woepke, which occurred in the City of St. Louis on July 30, 1962. The novel feature of the appeal is that opposing counsel are in sharp disagreement as to the party against whom the verdict and judgment were rendered.

That anomalous situation developed in this manner: Nelson first instituted suit in the Magistrate Court of St. Louis County on April 26, 1963, by filing a petition naming…