Parents may join lawsuit over death at Busch home

ST. LOUIS -- The Missouri Court of Appeals has ruled that the parents of a woman who died at the home of former Anheuser-Busch CEO August Busch IV may join a wrongful death lawsuit filed on her son's behalf.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the court's Eastern District on Tuesday reversed a lower court's decision barring the parents of Adrienne Martin from intervening in the case.

A Cape Girardeau County judge previously rejected her parents' attempt to be added as plaintiffs in the lawsuit. The suit was originally filed in Cape Girardeau by Dr. Kevin Martin, Adrienne Martin's ex-husband, on behalf of their son. Kevin Martin later accepted a settlement, but Busch's offer of a $1.5 million settlement has been on hold pending resolution of some legal issues.

Martin was 27 when she died of an accidental drug overdose in December 2010 at Busch's mansion near St. Louis.

A lawyer for Busch told the Post-Dispatch he'll appeal Tuesday's ruling to the Missouri Supreme Court.