Meyer ex rel. Meyer v. Vinson

JAMES W. BROADDUS, Special Commissioner.

These are appeals from orders of the Circuit Court entered in three cases dismissing plaintiffs’ causes of action for failure to prosecute. The three cases were consolidated by order of this Court.

The essential facts are as follows: All of the cases were filed in the Circuit Court of Chariton County on the 24th day of July, 1961. All three arose out of one accident, which is alleged to have taken place on the 8th day of August 1956, when two automobiles, one driven by defendant Vinson, the other by defendant Hickerson, collided at the intersection of…