McGowan v. Wells

The plaintiff was struck by a street car operated by the defendant receiver in the city of St. Louis and sustained certain painful and some permanent injuries, chief among which was the loss of his left foot. He brought this suit for $65,000 damages, and recovered a verdict and judgment for $15,000, from which the defendant has appealed.

The negligence charged in the petition was: (1) violation of the St. Louis speed ordinance; (2) violation of the vigilant-watch oridinance; (3) common law negligence in failing to sound the street-car gong or bell; (4) violation of the humanitarian rule in…