(DOWNLOAD) "State Ex Rel. American Family Mutual" by Eastern District, Division Five Court of Appeals of Missouri * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State Ex Rel. American Family Mutual
- Author : Eastern District, Division Five Court of Appeals of Missouri
- Release Date : January 19, 1992
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
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Relator, American Family Mutual Insurance Company, seeks a writ of prohibition to prevent respondent, the Honorable Jack L.
Koehr, from proceeding in the case of Laura Etrula Higginbottom v. Christopher Pike, et al., No. 912-07523, an action for
damages for bodily injury pending in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis. On February 24, 1992, we issued our preliminary
order in prohibition. We now make the writ of prohibition absolute. The record on appeal is sparse. By way of background, Laura Etrula Higginbottom and her son, Joseph Higginbottom (son), originally
brought an action in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County (County) against Christopher Pike (Pike) for personal injuries
sustained in an automobile accident. Mrs. Higginbottom was a passenger in the car driven by son which collided with a car
driven by Pike. Mrs. Higginbottom later added relator as a party defendant, because the insurance policy issued by relator
to son provided underinsured motorist coverage. Mrs. Higginbottom then filed, by leave of court, a second amended petition
in County, adding her son as a defendant. Thereafter, Mrs. Higginbottom dismissed, without prejudice, the second amended petition
in County.