Trotter ex rel. Trotter v. Sirinek

KELLY, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis dismissing appellant’s amended petition on the grounds that it fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. We reverse.

Where a petition is. attacked by a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim the facts alleged are taken to be true and the pleader is entitled to all favorable inferences fairly deducible therefrom; if the facts pleaded and the reasonable inferences to be drawn therefrom, looked at *68most favorably from the plaintiff’s viewpoint, show any ground for relief, then the…