Tharp v. Oberhellmann

SIMEONE, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal by the defendants-appellants, the minor children of Maxwell Ferrell, by their guardian ad litem, from a judgment entered by the circuit court of the City of St. Louis on June 25, 1974, barring them from maintaining an action for the alleged wrongful death of their father. We affirm.

On February 1, 1971, Maxwell Ferrell was an employee of the Lee Paper Company in the City of St. Louis. On that date he was operating a fork lift truck and was engaged in loading a truck owned by plaintiff Otis Tharp and operated by John Eugene Coleman. Coleman’s truck had…