Quinn v. Graham

TITUS, Judge.

The sole appeal in this cause is by the City of Carthage, a city of the third class (V.A.M.S. Chapter 77), from a judgment entered on a $5,000 jury verdict returned in the Circuit Court of Jasper County in favor of plaintiff Alice Quinn who sought damages because of an accident she is said to have encountered on a public easement. A $1,000 verdict-judgment for her husband on his derivative action was set aside by the trial court for his neglect to give the city any written notice of his claim. V.A.M.S. § 77.600; Dohring v. Kansas City, 228 Mo. App. 519, 71 S.W.2d 170. The other…