MAHLANDT v. WILD CANID SURVIVAL, ETC.

No. 78-1077.

588 F.2d 626 (1978)

Daniel Joseph MAHLANDT, a Minor, by and through his parents and next friends, Donald J. Mahlandt and Dorcas Eugenie Curry, Donald J. Mahlandt and Dorcas Eugenie Curry, Individually, Appellants, v. WILD CANID SURVIVAL & RESEARCH CENTER, INC., a corporation, Jean Poos, and Kenneth Poos, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided December 11, 1978.

Rehearing Denied December 26, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P. Terence Crebs, Gallop, Johnson, Godiner, Morganstern & Crebs, St. Louis, Mo., for appellants; Frank Susman, Susman, Schermer, Willer & Rimmel, St. Louis, Mo., on the brief.

Eugene K. Buckley, Evans & Dixon, St. Louis, Mo., for appellees; Marilyn R. Koch, St. Louis, Mo., on the brief.

Before HEANEY and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges, and VAN SICKLE, District Judge.


VAN SICKLE, District Judge.

This is a civil action for damages arising out of an alleged attack by a wolf on a child. The sole issues on appeal are as to the correctness of three rulings which excluded conclusionary statements against interest. Two of them were made by a defendant, who was also an employee of the corporate defendant; and the third was in the form of a statement appearing in the records of a board meeting of the corporate defendant.

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