State Ex Rel. McClure v. Dinwiddie

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CONKLING, J.

Mandamus. Upon petition therefor we issued our alternative writ directing Honorable Walter M. Dinwiddie, as Judge of the Circuit Court of Boone County, to permit Thomas McClure, Jr., the defendant in an automobile damage action pending in said circuit court, to file in said cause his third-party petition, or to show cause why such petition should not be permitted to be filed.

We thus have before us an important and heretofore unsettled question of practice under Sec. 847.20 of our new Code (Laws Mo. 1943, pp. 362, 363, Sec. 20). This innovation was introduced by the New Code…