LOWE v. NORFOLK AND WESTERN RY. CO.

No. 69761.

753 S.W.2d 891 (1988)

Richard G. LOWE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GATX CORPORATION, Dresser Industries, Inc., and Monsanto Company, Third-Party Defendants-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied June 14, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Schoenbeck, St. Louis, for appellant.

Kenneth R. Heineman, Bruce D. Ryder, Timothy Noelker, Ted L. Perryman, W. Munro Roberts, Jr., Laura B. Allen, William W. Evans, St. Louis, for respondents.


BLACKMAR, Judge.

We now answer a previously unanswered question precipitated by this Court's epochal decision in Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Whitehead & Kales, 566 S.W.2d 466 (Mo. banc 1978), in which we abolished the long-established rule that a joint tort-feasor had no right to contribution from another joint tort-feasor, except when a joint judgment has been rendered...

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