Maxwell v. City of Springfield

HOGAN, Presiding Judge.

This action arose out of an intersectional collision between plaintiff Mary Maxwell’s vehicle and a city-owned bus in the intersection of Campbell and Division Streets in Springfield, Missouri. The intersection is controlled by an electric signal. A good deal of evidence was received by the trial court, but in the final analysis the disposi-tive issue of fact was “who had the green light” and plaintiff submitted her case upon defendants’ violation of the traffic signal in the form required by MAI 17.01. A jury found the issues for the defendants and against the…