SPERRY CORP. v. CORCORAN

Nos. 64672, 64694 and 64669.

657 S.W.2d 619 (1983)

SPERRY CORPORATION, Relator, v. The Honorable James S. CORCORAN, Judge, Circuit Court, St. Louis City, Respondent. STATE ex rel. B.G. PRATER, et al., Relator, v. The Honorable James S. CORCORAN, Judge, Circuit Court, St. Louis City, Respondent. LESTER E. COX MEDICAL CENTER, INC., Relator, v. The Honorable James S. CORCORAN, Judge, Circuit Court, St. Louis City, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied October 18, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene K. Buckley, St. Louis, Robert W. Freeman, Robert G. Ingold, Springfield, Ronald E. Fox, Richard L. Prebil, St. Louis, John K. Hulston, Springfield, for relators.

Leonard P. Cervantes, Stephen J. Jianakoplos, St. Louis, for respondent.


DONNELLY, Judge.

This is prohibition.

On August 31, 1980, John Reynolds suffered an eye injury in Barry County, Missouri, while working on a haybine mower conditioner alleged to have been manufactured by Sperry. He was taken to Springfield, Missouri, where he was treated by B.G. Prater, M.D., of E.E.N.T. Clinic, at Lester E. Cox Medical Center.

A petition for damages was filed in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis. Theories of strict liability...

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