Demoss v. Kansas City Railways Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court — Eon. Daniel E. Bird, Judge. (1) The court erred in refusing to give the peremptory instructions in the nature of demurrers, requested by defendant. (a) The motorman had a right to assume .the. automobile would stop. Boyd v. Railroad, 105 Mo. 371, 381; MeCreery v. United Rys., 221 Mo. 18; Lewis y. Met. St. Ry. Co., 181 Mo. App. 421 ; Markowitz vv‘ílailroad,.186 Mo. 358; Hicks v. Citizens Ry. Co., 124 Mb.- 115; Gessner v. Met. St. Ry.
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court — Eon. Daniel E. Bird, Judge. (1) The court erred in refusing to give the peremptory instructions in the nature of demurrers, requested by defendant. (a) The motorman had a right to assume .the. automobile would stop. Boyd v. Railroad, 105 Mo. 371, 381; MeCreery v. United Rys., 221 Mo. 18; Lewis y. Met. St. Ry. Co., 181 Mo. App. 421 ; Markowitz vv‘ílailroad,.186 Mo. 358; Hicks v. Citizens Ry. Co., 124 Mb.- 115; Gessner v. Met. St. Ry. Co., 137 Mo. App. 53; Barnard-v. Met. St. Ry. Co., 137 Mo. App. 691; Lawson Legg y. Met. St.- Ry. Co., 154 Mo. App. 290;…
1Opinion of the CourtDavid E. Blair, J.
The action is in damages for personal injuries. From a judgment for $15,000 in favor of the plaintiff below, defendant has appealed. By reason of a dissent to an opinion written in Di vision Two affirming the judgment below, the case came here, where, after argument anew, the divisional opinion was rejected. In the view we take of the case we need consider only one assignment of error discussed in the divisional opinion, to-wit: The sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict for plaintiff.
On May 18,1918, at about four or five o ’clock p. m,, plaintiff and her husband, John H. DeMoss,…
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