Reynolds v. Grain Belt Mills Co.

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment finally rendered in plaintiff’s favor for $7470.64, in a suit wherein plaintiff sued for damages sustained by reason of being struck by defendant’s automobile on the streets of St. Joseph, Missouri.

The second amended petition, on which the case was tried, alleged that on August 23, 1928, about 3:35' p. m., while plaintiff, in the exercise of due care, was crossing Illinois Avenue from south to north at a point just east of Lake Avenue and about the center of Illinois Avenue he was struck by defendant’s automobile proceeding west on said Illinois…