Western Casualty & Surety Co. v. Shell Oil Co.

DOERNER, Commissioner.

This appeal involves a claim for non-contractual indemnity for liability arising in tort. Marilyn Boyer and Shirley Mae Guenther, teen-age girls, were injured when an explosion occurred in the ladies’ rest room in a filling station in DeSoto, Missouri. The station was being operated by Cledis Lanham under a written lease from Shell Oil Company, which owned and had constructed it. The Boyer and Guenther girls each brought an action in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis in which Lanham and Shell were joined as defendants. Shell effected settlements of both suits…