Missouri's highest court sends Cape 'slip and fall' case back to Stoddard County

Wednesday, January 12, 2022 ~ Updated 10:52 PM

In a 23-page ruling released Tuesday, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled the case of a title company employee injured in an Aug. 29, 2013, fall in the former Cape Girardeau Common Pleas Courthouse -- now part of the new City Hall complex at 44 N. Lorimier St. -- be remanded, or sent back, to the original trial court.

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