Payne Ex Rel. Copeland v. Davis

The appellant is the Designated Agent under the Federal Transportation Act of 1920, to conduct litigation arising out of the operation of the system of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company while the property of that company was being operated by the Director General of Railroads. His appeal is here in due form from a judgment rendered by the Circuit Court of St. Louis County in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, in favor of respondent, William Otto Payne, an infant suing by his next friend, and following the verdict of a jury assessing respondent's damages at that sum. The amount sued for…