Section 21 Severance of Contribution Claims

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In Eagleburger v. Emerson Electric Co., 794 S.W.2d 210 (Mo. App. S.D. 1990), the plaintiff originally sued only the City of Springfield, Missouri. Later, the plaintiff added two additional defendants, and then two months before trial, it settled with one of those defendants and dismissed the city without prejudice. Two weeks before the case was scheduled for trial, the remaining defendant filed (1) a motion
to bring the city back into the case as a third-party defendant and
(2) a motion for continuance of the trial until the...