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Article: Missouri Supreme Court: The Kansas City Southern Railway Company v. Nixon
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- May 5, 2009
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Civil Practice
State ex rel. The Kansas City Southern Railway Company v. Nixon
(Case No. SC89704 - 11 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Wolff, J.;
Stith, C.J., Price, Teitelman and Breckenridge, JJ., concur;
Fischer, J., dissents in separate opinion filed; Russell, J.,
concurs in opinion of Fischer, J.)
Venue - Amended Petition - Motion To Transfer
Where plaintiffs who brought a wrongful death action against a
railroad were granted leave by the trial court to amend their
petition to add a railroad employee, which would make venue proper
in Jackson County where the plaintiffs filed, the court did not
exceed its jurisdiction in allowing the amendment and in overruling
a pending motion by the ...