State ex rel. State Highway Commission v. Blair

STONE, Judge.

In this action at law, relator State Highway Commission of Missouri seeks to recover the sum of $1,563.20 for damage to a bridge on U. S. Highway No. 61 in Pem-iscot County, Missouri, when it was struck on November 13, 1969, by a loaded tractor-trailer unit driven by defendant James Eaton Blair, Jr., allegedly acting as agent, servant and employee of ^defendant Lester W. Painter, owner of the tractor, and defendant Richard Turnbull, owner of the trailer and lessee of the tractor. In response to relator’s petition, defendants filed a motion to dismiss (a) because the petition…