West v. St. Louis Public Service Co.

BARRETT, Commissioner.

Claiming to have been seriously injured by reason of the negligence of the St. Louis Public Service Company, Margie West instituted this action to recover $18,500 damages. A jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant company and Mrs. West has appealed. She asserts that the court erred in the giving and refusal of certain instructions and that, therefore, she is entitled to a new trial at the hands of this court, the trial court having overruled her motion for a new trial.

Some of her complaints are so obviously lacking in substantial merit that they may be disposed…