Koerper & Co. v. Unitel International, Inc.

DONNELLY, Judge.

This ease was transferred here by the Western District of the Court of Appeals for resolution of a conflict between Hawkins v. Hawkins, 533 S.W.2d 634 (Mo.App.1976) and Link v. Ise, 716 S.W.2d 805 (Mo.App.1986). Mo. Const, art. V, § 10.

The question is: When may an amended petition relate back to the filing of an original petition so as to save a plaintiff’s cause of action from the bar of a statute of limitations?

In Arpe v. Mesker Brothers Iron Company, 323 Mo. 640, 648, 19 S.W.2d 668, 670 (1929) this Court said: “The general rule is that an amendment will not have such effect…