Swallows v. Holden

FLANIGAN, Judge.

Defendants-appellants, against whom the trial court entered judgment, make the unusual and valid contention that the judgment must be set aside, not for the insufficiency of the evidence to support it but for the lack of any evidence at all.

Plaintiff-respondent Elmer Swallows brought this action against defendant Dexter Palette Company, Inc., a Missouri corporation, and four individual defendants. The petition alleged, in general: On November 29, 1983, plaintiff obtained a workers’ compensation award in the amount of $15,287.62 against the corporate defendant; on January 18,…