State ex rel. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Hughes
Decision Date | 12 March 1941 |
Docket Number | 37326 |
Parties | State of Missouri at the relation of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a Corporation, Relator, v. W. C. Hughes, Wm. Dee Becker and Edward J. McCullen, Judges of the St. Louis Court of Appeals |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Rehearing Denied March 12, 1941. Mandate Conformed to May 6 1941.
Record quashed.
Fordyce White, Mayne, Williams & Hartmann and Oliver & Oliver for relator;
Harry Cole Bates of counsel.
(1) The Supreme Court will, upon a writ of certiorari to a Court of Appeals, eliminate conflicts between such Court of Appeals and the latest controlling rulings of the court on the subject either as to a general principle of law announced or to a ruling under a like, analogous or similar state of facts. This court will, so far as it is possible, maintain harmony in the law of this State. State ex rel. Vulgamott v. Trimble, 300 Mo. 92, 253 S.W. 1014; State ex rel. Kroger G. & B. Co. v. Haid, 323 Mo. 9, 18 S.W.2d 478. (2) Where a plaintiff recovers judgment upon trial upon the merits, and that judgment is reversed outright by an appellate court, he cannot maintain another action upon the same cause of action. Ginnocchio v. Ill. Cent. Ry. Co., 264 Mo. 522; Strottman v. Railroad Co., 228 Mo. 193; Berry v. Majestic Milling Co., 304 Mo. 301. (3) "It is also well settled that a former judgment is a bar, not only as to all matters which were raised, but also as to all defenses which could have been raised." United States ex rel. v. Lufcy, 49 S.W.2d 14; State v. Bliss, 99 S.W.2d 72; Leslie v. Carter, 268 Mo. 428; Summit v. Realty & Brokerage Co., 208 Mo. 511.
W. A. Brookshire for respondents.
(1) The judgment of the Springfield Court of Appeals, which reversed the judgment in favor of Charles F. Adams, for the reason that notice and due proof had not been furnished the relator, is not a bar to the present suit. It was not on the merits. 34 C. J. 777, sec. 1195; 2 Freeman on Judgments, secs. 739, 723, 725, 732; Gould v. Railroad Co., 91 U.S. 532; Hughes v. United States, 4 Wall. 232; Hoover v. King, 43 Ore. 285; Crow v. Abraham, 86 Ore. 103; Brown v. Fletcher, 182 F. 966; Moody v. Atkinson, 165 Ala. 302; Reilly v. Perkins, 6 Ariz. 190; Cooper v. McCoy, 116 Ark. 505; Armstrong v. County of Manatee, 49 Fla. 275; Callaway v. Irvin, 123 Ga. 351; Pepper v. Donnelly, 87 Ky. 262; Barr v. Poor, 28 C. C. Rep. 257; Buchanan v. Banks, 203 Pa. 601; Strottman v. Railroad, 228 Mo. 186; Lilly v. Tobein, 103 Mo. 477; Baldwin v. Davidson, 139 Mo. 126; Short v. Taylor, 137 Mo. 527; Couch v. Harp, 201 Mo. 464. (2) Due proof as required by the contract of insurance was furnished the relator when at its home office in New York City the first petition filed in this case, to-wit, on or about the 5th day of March, 1932. Adams v. Met. Life Ins. Co., 74 S.W.2d 899; Wollenberg v. Equitable Life Assur. Society, 96 S.W.2d 57.
This is an original proceeding in certiorari to review the record in the case of Adams v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., reported in 139 S.W.2d 1098, wherein the respondents, as Judges of the St. Louis Court of Appeals, affirmed a judgment obtained by the plaintiff against the relator growing out of a policy of group insurance issued to the St. Joseph Lead Co., by whom the plaintiff was employed. The plaintiff was injured on December 16, 1923, and he claims he received permanent disability, and, therefore, that he comes within the terms of the policy.
The essential facts as found by respondents are as follows:
In ruling that the judgment of the Springfield Court of Appeals was not a bar to this suit, the respondents said:
The relator contends that this ruling of the respondents contravenes the latest controlling holding of this court. It is to be remembered that the first case was tried on the merits in the Butler County Circuit Court where a judgment was obtained against the relator. On appeal to the Springfield Court of Appeals, that court entered a judgment reversing the judgment of the trial court. It did not reverse and remand the judgment to the trial court with directions to dismiss the plaintiff's petition. The respondents interpreted the opinion of the Springfield Court of Appeals to hold...
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