Wells v. Asher

STONE, Judge.

In this jury-tried suit, defendant appeals from the judgment for $1,085 obtained by plaintiff for damage to her six-room modern frame rental house at 3305 East 13th Street in Joplin, Missouri, resulting when a westbound Buick automobile driven by defendant left the paved roadway, crossed a shallow drainage ditch some twelve to eighteen inches in depth on the right-hand or north side of the road, traveled “half a block” through the wide yard of the Klimpt home just east of plaintiff’s property, ran over a sapling in the Klimpt yard and through a four-foot or five-foot woven wire…