City of St. Louis v. Benjamin Moore & Co.

PER CURIAM.1

INTRODUCTION

The city of St. Louis has a program to assess, abate and remediate lead paint be*113cause it can be harmful when ingested by children. The city filed this public nuisance claim against companies that put lead paint into the stream of commerce seeking to recover its costs for the program. The city could not connect any specific defendant to any specific abatement project. Correctly relying on Zafft v. Eli Lilly & Co., 676 S.W.2d 241 (Mo. banc 1984), the trial court concluded that the evidence was not sufficient to prove causation and entered judgment for the defendants.…