Ostermueller v. Potter

COVINGTON, Chief Justice.

On February 13, 1990, Dorothy J. Oster-mueller and Ralph Ostermueller filed a petition in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County seeking damages for personal injury and loss of consortium. They alleged that on April 25, 1986, Samuel S. Potter negligently drove through an intersection and struck Mrs. Os-termueller’s automobile. The Ostermuellers made three unsuccessful attempts to serve process upon Mr. Potter. On September 17, 1990, the circuit court placed the case on its dismissal docket, and on November 7, 1990, the court dismissed the case without prejudice for…