State ex rel. Dowdy v. Neill

STEPHEN N. LIMBAUGH, JR., Chief Justice.

This is a companion case to State ex rel. Kertz v. Neill, 90 S.W.3d 467 (Mo. banc 2002), decided this day. The question presented is the same: whether Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BSNF) — one of two defendants in an underlying wrongful death case — is a resident of St. Louis City under section 508.010(2), the statute on which venue is based. The codefendant is a resident of Franklin County and the action accrued in Phelps County. On application by defendants, respondent ordered the case transferred from St. Louis City, where it was…