Mueller v. St. Louis Public Service Co.

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LEEDY, J.

Isabella Mueller instituted this action against St. Louis Public Service Company for $30,000.00 damages on account of injuries alleged to have been suffered by her in attempting to alight from defendant’s motor bus on which she was a passenger. The jury returned a verdict in her favor for $15,000.00, which the trial court set aside and sustained defendant’s motion for a new trial. Plaintiff appeals from that order.

The petition charged general negligence, and the submission was under the res ipsa loquitur doctrine. The trial court sustained those grounds of the motion for a new…