Schoneweather v. L. F. Richardson, Inc.

RIDGE, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, tenants of residential property, filed claim in a court of the State of Missouri, against their landlord to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligent installation of heating apparatus in the premises in question, during the tenancy. The landlord, with the consent of the plaintiffs, openly given in the state court, summoned as a. third-party defendant Sears, Roebuck and Company, who sold to the landlord the heating unit in question and contracted the installation thereof as a “turn-key job.” The third-party defendant…