Shores v. Express Lending Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that equitable estoppel under Missouri law requires “an admission, statement, or act by the person to be estopped that is inconsistent with the claim that is later asserted and sued upon”
• finding reversible error in finding a split cause of action because although plaintiffs current action arose from the same chain of events, it constituted a separate action against a different party
• “[T]he prohibition against splitting a cause of action does not apply where the parties are different.”
• “[T]he rule against splitting a cause of action is a form of claim preclusion or res judicata.”
• noting “[b]oth are unfavored theories”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).