Angelo v. City of Hazelwood

CRANDALL, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs, John and Kimberly Angelo, appeal from the trial court’s judgment sustaining a motion for judgment on the pleadings in favor of defendant, City of Hazel-wood. We affirm.

The party moving for judgment on the pleadings admits, for purposes of the motion, the truth of all well pleaded facts in the opposing party’s pleadings. Madison Block Pharmacy v. U.S. Fidelity, 620 S.W.2d 343, 345 (Mo. banc 1981). “The position of a party moving for judgment on the pleadings is similar to that of a movant on a motion to dismiss, i.e., assuming the facts pleaded by the opposite…