Ganaway v. Department of Social Services

BERREY, Judge.

Appeal from a decision by the Circuit Court of Boone County, Missouri, establishing the priority of competing claims to funds paid into the court by Shelter Mutual Insurance Company after a judgment had been obtained in favor of Steven Ganaway against Shelter’s insured. The two competing claimants are Strong & Wooddell, P.C., the law firm which represented Ganaway, and the Missouri Department of Social Services which had expended public funds for a portion of Ganaway’s medical expenses.

Steven Ganaway was involved in an automobile collision on November 15, 1981, which rendered…