Rinderknecht v. Thompson

In the circuit court of the city of St. Louis the respondent recovered a judgment in the sum of $20,000 against the appellant for personal injuries that the respondent received in a collision between a milk truck he was driving and an engine operated by the appellant. This collision occurred at the intersection of Big Bend Road and the Missouri Pacific Railroad tracks in St. Louis County.

The appellant’s first assignment of error is that the respondent’s “petition fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, because: (A) It does not allege that the appellant knew or, in the…