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Where plaintiffs’ service station and personal property were damaged by a fire that started next door in defendant’s mobile home, there was no evidence of the fire’s cause or of any specific act of negligence on the defendant’s part that ...

Tagged with: evidence Fire Damage Negligence Proximate Cause

Where a wife in a dissolution appealed a provision, which included an injunction against the release by either party of confidential financial documents, in the judgment, but the wife did not challenge the dissolution or custody provisions or distribution of ...

Tagged with: appeal Domestic Relations

Even though a murder defendant appeared in both a photographic and physical line-up, the physical line-up was not impermissibly suggestive, so the reliability of the witness identification in the case was not at issue, and the trial court did not ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law Identification Testimony Sufficiency Of Evidence

Where a defendant was charged and convicted of three counts of robbery, separating the robbery of the store manager for robbery of the store’s property and his own watch into two counts constituted double jeopardy, the failure of the defendant’s ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law Double Jeopardy effectiveness of counsel Robbery Charges

Where a homeowner whose house was damaged by fire signed that same evening a service agreement with a contractor to repair her home and the contract lacked agreement as to the price and scope of the work or whether the ...

Tagged with: Construction contracts Liquidated Damages

Murder; Batson challenge ED89968 State of Missouri, Respondent, v. Tyrone C. Bateman, Appellant Appeal From: St. Louis City Circuit Court, Judge Joan L. Moriarty Handdown Date: 2/24/2009 Opinion Author: Judge George W. Draper III Opinion Vote: Judge Baker concurs and ...

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Where a school district challenged a city’s adoption of an ordinance authorizing the use of tax-increment financing for a redevelopment project, summary judgment in favor of the city and developer is affirmed because the city showed an inadequate street layout, ...

Tagged with: Real Property redevelopment Tax Increment Financing

Where a husband in a dissolution appealed pro se, challenging a pendente lite judgment and the dissolution, the husband failed to file a motion to file a late notice of appeal for the pendenten lite judgment and four of the ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Pro Se Appeal timeliness

Where a defendant convicted of first-degree murder had a confrontation with the victim, threatened to hurt him, drove home to get a gun and returned to shoot the victim, the record supported a finding that the defendant deliberated before the ...

Tagged with: Batson Criminal Law Deliberation First-Degree Murder

Where a doctor sought judicial review of a disciplinary order of his medical license, the trial court lacked jurisdiction over the matter because of the doctor’s failure to timely file the petition. Preliminary order in prohibition made absolute. State Board ...

Tagged with: Administrative judicial review timeliness

Walking injury; compensability ED91671 Mitchell Miller, Appellant, v. Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission, Respondent Appeal From: Labor and Industrial Relations Commission Handdown Date: 2/17/2009 Opinion Author: Judge Robert G. Dowd Jr. Opinion Vote: Judges Ahrens and Sullivan concur Mitchell Miller ...

Tagged with: Workers' compensation