O'NEIL v. STATE

No. 64998.

662 S.W.2d 260 (1983)

Christopher O'NEIL, Respondent, v. STATE of Missouri, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied January 17, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry Short, Kristie Green, Asst. Attys. Gen., Jefferson City, for appellant.

Michael D. Stokes, Frances M. Luehrman, St. Louis, John H. Marshall, Burns, Marshall & Burns, Clayton, for respondent.


DONNELLY, Judge.

This case was transferred by this Court as raising a question of general interest or importance. Rule 83.03. We decide it as on original appeal. Rule 83.09.

In October of 1978, respondent, then a nineteen-year-old inmate at the Missouri State Training Center at Moberly, contracted pneumococcal meningitis which rendered him a quadriplegic, mute, blind in one eye and mentally retarded. Suit was filed on his behalf against the State of Missouri...

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