Revelle v. Davis

Plaintiffs, Gerald Revelle, Delores Revelle, and RDB Development Company, brought a lawsuit for legal malpractice against William Davis and Moser, Marsalek, Carpenter, Cleary, Jaeckel and Keaney for an alleged failure to renew a written lease. The failure to renew the lease resulted in the closing of plaintiffs’ business, a restaurant in St. Louis, Missouri. The suit was filed in St. Glair County, Illinois, in January 1989. Defendants filed a motion to transfer or dismiss the cause based on the doctrine of forum non conveniens. The court denied the motion but, after several years of pretrial…